Best’s Wines Great Western Pinot Noir 2025

One smart Pinot at one smart price that so nicely captures the Best’s philosophy of wine for all. The producer regularly over delivers and as it celebrates its 160th birthday this year, it’s got some excellent 2025 vintage wines to toast the occasion. Pointed aromas of heady red berries and cherries and woody spice fills the bouquet. In keeping with its cool, temperate climate, Great Western is well-suited to Pinot Noir. Note the light peppery spiciness working its way across the palate, together with bay leaf and earth which serve to meld, highlighting the red fruit and sweet, ripe plums. Smooth running right to the end with a juicy freshness that makes it hard not to consider opening right now. Don’t fight it, it’s ready to go.

Jeni Port

Wine critic at Winepilot

Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.

Wine writer and critic