Rochford Dans les Bois Pinot Noir 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Rochford Dans les Bois Pinot Noir 2023.

Rochford Dans les Bois Pinot Noir 2023
$54, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, (Upper) Yarra Valley.

This is a highly structured pinot noir with length to burn. It has the Upper Yarra written all over it. It tastes of cranberry, orange peel, twiggy herbs and leaf matter, with creamy, smoky, cedarwood oak layered over the top. This is one of those light-but-insistent wines, in the most positive of ways. 93/100 now, with the high chance that it will score higher in time.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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