Russell & Suitor Ladera Pinot Noir 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Russell & Suitor Ladera Pinot Noir 2025.

Russell & Suitor Ladera Pinot Noir 2025
AU$35, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Tasmania.

This is an attractive pinot noir. It offers sweet berried fruit where it needs to; wafts of floral perfumes; spice notes; and a solid churn of stewed fruits and undergrowth. It’s complex but not in-your-face about it; it feels well powered but also just good to drink, straight up. Smoky, toasty oak notes are well integrated and lightly applied; everything here is in good order.

92 points – Campbell Mattinson.

Campbell Mattinson

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.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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