Island of Sliding Doors Pinot Noir 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Island of Sliding Doors Pinot Noir 2025.

Island of Sliding Doors Pinot Noir 2025
$90, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Tasmania.

The pitch here is perfect. The berry flavours, whilst bright and energetic, have a darkness to them, almost like blueberries and forest berries mixed in with fresh red cherries. Layered through these fruit flavours are spice notes, harmonious and flamboyant at once, along with woodsmoke, cedar, dried herbs and autumn leaves. It’s an exotic presentation of flavour, aided at first by a slip of softness and then abetted by both exquisite balance and carefully etched tannin. 94 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 both The Winefront site (the home of Australia’s best wine reviews) and of Mattinson Photography.

Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer 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 national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson is a storyteller. He is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic, and in all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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