Review: Mayfield Vineyard Mrs Crawford Pinot Noir 2023

From Orange, which has very few orange wines (but a few amber wines. That went well, didn’t it). Anyway, this is a lucid, raspberry-perfumed Pinot Noir with a slightly herbal edge. It’s a bit light and early picked on the palate – the red fruit doesn’t quite carry through to the finish, and the oak streak through the middle makes that even more apparent. Still, a wine of such joyous fruit and raised acidity freshness.

THE VERDICT

• Best drinking: nowish
• Score (out of 20): 17.7
• Score (out of 100): 92
• Alcohol %: 12
• RRP (in $AUD): 37
• Winery website: https://www.mayfieldvineyard.com.au/
• Would I buy it?: A glass