Tolpuddle Pinot Noir 2024
A$100, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Tasmania.
Tension, texture, drive, length, the works. This is an excellent release of Tolpuddle Pinot Noir. Chicory, black cherry, twiggy herb notes and smoked, meaty, cedarwood characters. It’s strict and sinewy on the one hand, and plush with well-pitched fruit-and-oak on the other. This needs a few years in a cool, dark place but given that, it will dazzle.
95 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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
