2025 L.A.S. Vino Albino Pinot
Quite simply one of the finest rosés produced in WA from this vintage. It’s an incredibly complex wine that reflects clever and astute winemaking. It’s a blend of 90% pinot noir with the remainder chardonnay, made using a combination of yeasts, some barrel fermentation, and fermentation in clay and oak. It’s a wine loaded with character and poise, displaying beautiful floral and red berry aromatics, remarkable freshness, and a palate that is pure joy. Thoroughly engaging, clever, and above all, an outstanding example of modern Australian rosé.
95 Points - Ray Jordan - WA Wine Review
2024 L.A.S. Vino Albino PNO
'Enticing, thanks to the aromas and flavours- all florals, beeswax and freeze-dried raspberries. The palate unfurls with spiced poached cherries, clotted cream and pear-skin phenolics adding texture.'
95+/100 Jane Faulkner - Halliday's Wine Companion
2023 L.A.S. Vino Albino PNO
ROSÈ OF THE YEAR 2025
'The indelible Nic Peterkin stamp is all over this thoroughly captivating rose style. Aromas of cranberry and pomegranate with a little cherry and spicy grapefruit. The palate is textured with a fine vibrant acidity.'
96 Points - Ray Jordan
2023 L.A.S. Vino Albino PNO
"A layered, complex and textural wine, with a dry but soft mouth-feel. It's deliberately not fruity/grapy: an outstanding rose style"
95 Points #1 Rose from Margaret River 2023
Huon Hooke (The Real Review)
2023 L.A.S. Vino Albino PNO
The coming together of 80% pinot noir and 20% chardonnay, aged for nine months in barriques and clay vessels, creates this exceptional rosé. A pale, dusty copper hue with a hint of gold, so it entices immediately. A more subtle iteration with some just-ripe raspberries mixed with lime finger pearls, grapefruit juice, a touch of fresh herbs and a smidge of creaminess across the palate. It is the texture of this wine that makes it stand out, yet it has refreshing and cleansing acidity to close. Love it – consistently one of my top rosés.
95 points -Jane Faulkner
Halliday's Wine Companion
2023 L.A.S. Vino Albino PNO
The 2023 Albino PNO has a very light nose, with notes of cheesecloth and juniper, strawberry and lemon drop, barley and beeswax. In the mouth, the wine is mouthfilling and satisfying—it achieves both precision and blanketing texture, while the flavors evolve beautifully across the palate. This lovely wine is a delicate expression from a mild, cool season. Though very different from the year prior, it is no less attractive.
94 points -Erin Larkin
Robert Parker Wine Advocate
2022 L.A.S. Vino Albino PNO
"Glorious red fruit in here — a loganberry fool creaminess — and poached, quince-like exotics too. (Cold cane berry soufflée, rather than strawberry panna cotta this vintage*). How it tastes too, with tingle and chew. Cane berries and blood orange in a tight, pure, sea salty suspension. All luxuriousness in taste and texture; sparkles and then melts. Fruit-packed, briny finish and mouth-aroma wafts of pistachio shell and creamy peel. The ’22 is right up there with the ’19 (and ’21) maybe showing a bit more influence from the 14% component of deep, tangy Wilyabrup Chardonnay which can be most distinctive in some years. Albino PNO really is one of Australia’s deliciously distinctive and exceptional table wines — of any kind. These are my ratings for previous L.A.S. Vino PNOs. 2016 (92/100), 2017 (94/100), 2018 (93/100), 2019 (96/100), 2020 (94/100), and 2021 (96/100). An incredible body of work."
96 Points
Tim White
2022 L.A.S. Vino Albino PNO
" A light and bright straw yellow colour. Nectarine, bush honey, and roasted hazelnut aromas. Quite savoury and weighty on the palate with nutty notes entwined with ripe nectarine and honey characters. Goes long across the palate with a hint of phenolics to dry the finish well. There's a lot of wine here. It will reward time in a decanter to allow all the layers to come through. "
95 Points
#1 Rose from Margaret River 2023
Stuart Knox (The Real Review)
2022 L.A.S. Vino Albino PNO
This is high on my drink list for summer. It starts out with the palest copper, light-gold hue. Textural, tangy and flavoursome. A rosé that tastes like a proper wine, not an afterthought (made with the addition of 10% chardonnay, whole-bunch pressed and left on lees in used barriques for 10 months). Hints of rose petals, cherries and pips with creamy lees, it’s slurpy, satisfying and sensational.
95 points
Hallidays Wine Companion -Jane Faulkner-
2021 L.A.S. Vino Albino PNO
"As a rose, this works a treat. It's got a strong mix of both varieties albeit light incharacter from both with a strong soaking of fino/amontillado sherry character over it all.Powerful wine. Lots on. Lemon balm, grilled nuts, sea spray, faint red cherry andcinnamon spices found in bouquet and palate. Rich texture, grippy and refreshing, arollicking ride with scintillating, saline acidity finishing things off long and ultrarefreshing. Wicked drink. Love it."
95 Points
Mike Bennie -The Wine Front-
2021 L.A.S. Vino Albino PNO
"The 2021 Albino PNO is composed of 90% Chardonnay and just 10% Pinot Noir, all fermented wild in barrel (full malolactic fermentation) and blended prior to bottling. This has a very pretty nose of strawberries, white pepper, poached pears, black tea and curls of kelp. There is blackberry and pink peppercorn and all manner of attractive red and pink things in here, but there is no getting away from the lovely phenolics that course through this wine. Perhaps a touch finer, more slippery than the 2020 that preceded it, but no surprise given the vintage conditions of each. A wine of shape and poise."
94+/100
Erin Larkin -Robert Parker Wine Advocate-
2020 L.A.S. Vino Albino PNO
"80/20% pinot noir/chardonnay, fermented and matured separately for for 10 months in barrique, bottled unfined and minimally filtered. This is finer and more delicate than the previous release, but with the trademark phenolic shape on the palate. Texturally exciting (fine, talcy, grippy), savoury, spicy and plush. Pomegranate, rockmelon, pink peppercorn, brine, cheesecloth, kiwifruit, red apples, crushed cashew and guava. Really feeling it. Nic Peterkin really is nailing the style here ... another wildly impressive release."
95/100
Erin Larkin - Hallidays Wine Companion -
