Agricola Vintners

Agricola Vintners in the Barossa Valley is a Mattinson 10-Star winery.

Agricola Vintners is a Mattinson 10-Star Winery.
Only the best of Australia’s best wineries are ranked as a Mattinson 10-Star Winery.

When I sat down to the 2024 release of Agricola Vintners K Sands Shiraz, these were the first words to spill out: “Shake the hand of the future because here it is. This Barossa Valley shiraz is just, simply, wildly good.” I wrote these words for The Winefront site, where I concluded with the words: “The Barossa and its old vines are treasures of the world. Drink this wine and know.” These comments followed the comments made of Agricola Vintners 2023 releases, which were a landmark. The Barossa Valley is a benchmark region for shiraz and grenache. There’s too much to the Barossa for it to ever be redefined. But the excitement being generated by Agricola Vintners and a limited few others, with old vine vineyards in tow, is a lava-flow revolution for the region. This is not a revolution of rules or counter-rules; it’s a revolution of quality in its sheerest form. These wines are different and the same. They are the ultimate honour of their land and of its peoples. These wines are not the Barossa as the outstretched frontier; they are the Barossa brought home.

Agricola Vintners Ebenezer 2024 review here.

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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