Shaw + Smith Lenswood Vineyard Pinot Noir 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Shaw + Smith Lenswood Vineyard Pinot Noir 2024.

Shaw + Smith Lenswood Vineyard Pinot Noir 2024
$100, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.

This is a perfectly polished Pinot Noir with cherry-plum, beetroot, crushed red rose and cedarwood flavours running through a fleshy and dark (in varietal terms) palate. It’s a fresh, lively wine but there’s good depth here – and the complexity to go with it. Tannin is both silken and assertive at once, and it finishes with a satisfying run of cedar, sweet spice and cherry-berry flavour. Some extra time for the oak to nestle further into the fruit will do this wine a world of good. 93+ 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.

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