Bell & Gong Valleyfield Vineyard Pinot Gris 2025
$35, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Tasmania.
It smells fruity and attractive and tastes punchy, textural and satisfying. There’s both a generosity and a sense of control to this Tasmanian Pinot Gris. Pear, barley, apple and spice characters run attractively through the palate, a velvety grape-skin quality helping with the mouthfeel. This wines tastes and feels good. 90 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.
