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

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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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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