Mandala Sands Pinot Noir 2025
$60, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Yarra Valley.
Juicy fruit flavour comes laden with undergrowth, oak-spice and woodsmoke. It’s an attractive Pinot Noir for its fruit but it comes with extras. Varietal character is clear here, as is juicy drinkability, as is shape and texture to the finish. 91 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.
