Star Lane Pinot Gris 2025
AU$38, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Beechworth.
This is not your standard pinot gris. Personality, it has plenty. It tastes strongly of honeysuckle and custard powder with lemon curd, cream, pure pear and peach-like characters also shooting throughout. It’s both wild and interesting. 91 points.
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.
