Dappled Champs De Cerises Pinot Noir 2024
$60, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Yarra Valley.
Sensational pinot noir. Seriously tight and tense but ripped with Upper Yarra insistence and so complex you could set it as a PhD topic. Twigs, herbs, citrus rinds, earth, rust, wood, toast, berries of the forest and rubber. Light, lovely, gorgeous, great. 95 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.
