Shadowfax Pinot Noir 2024
AU$42, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Macedon Ranges.
This is cool, bold, well-structured and lengthy all at once. It tastes of forest berries and cooling herbs, cedarwood and mineral, with an undergrowth-soaked-in-berry-juice aspect moving throughout. It’s archetypal cool climate Pinot Noir in the best of ways; it has substance but it also feels fine, light and long.
94 points – 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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
