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

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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