Scotsburn Ancient Sea Pinot Noir 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Scotsburn Ancient Sea Pinot Noir 2025.

Scotsburn Ancient Sea Pinot Noir 2025
AU$68, 13.2% alcohol, screwcap, Ballarat.

It’s called Ancient Sea because it’s grown in the remnant soils of an Ordovician-period seabed.

This is a surly, sultry, seductive pinot noir offering a mass of macerated cherry-plum fruit, highlights of sweet spice and orange blossom, a gentle veneer of cedarwood oak and a long trail of extra flavour out through the finish. It’s fine, finessed and powerful at once, with a complexity that feels both easy-going and impressive at once. It will mature gracefully and well.

94 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.

More about Campbell Mattinson

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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