Russell & Suitor Son of a Bull Sparkling 2025
$35, 12% alcohol, DIAM cork, Tasmania.
I opened this wine and the room filled with aroma. That’s a good sign. It’s alive with peachy, buttery flavour, with sweet pear and tropical fruit characters pushing through as well. Indeed there’s plenty of flavour to tuck into here, and flavour is what we all want. 90 points.
Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
