Vandenberg Estate Pinot Gris 2026
AU$30, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Mount Benson/Limestone Coast
This is like crunching into Granny Smith apples, at first, though as the wine travels through your mouth it adds lime, lychee, and white strawberry characters. It’s both fresh and refreshing but, simultaneously, it pushes satisfying flavour all the way from the start of the palate to the finish. In summary, it’s pitch perfect.
92 points – Campbell Mattinson.
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.
