Dappled Appellation Pinot Noir 2024
AU$45, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Yarra Valley.
The tension, the balance, the length and the array. This is another exquisite release from top-tier Yarra Valley winery Dappled. It tastes of red cherries and strawberries, twiggy herbs, cedar, something sour and something complex and undergrowthy. It’s satiny and it’s true. It is, in short, a delight.
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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
