Bulman Wines

Bulman Wines is a Mattinson Ten Star Winery.
Only the best of Australia’s best are ranked as a Mattinson Ten Star Winery.

When the history of modern Australian wine is written, the name Mark Bulman will feature. It will because he was the first winemaker to win Australia’s most prestigious wine prize – the Jimmy Watson Trophy – with a varietal grenache, and then because he’s followed it, under his own name, with grenache releases that are of the highest of high standard. In short, Mark Bulman is an Australian winemaker of significance. His Bulman Glen’s Vineyard Grenache Dry Red Wine 2023, from the Stonegarten vineyard in the Eden Valley, re-writes what’s possible for this region. I wrote about and described this wine in the Winefront at length, concluding with the words: “It throws characters of stone, concrete, redcurrant, blood orange, mint, rust, seaweed and assorted other shopping list items, but it’s the flamboyance of its scent, the long raking farmland of tannin, and the collection of blood-splattered stones that really set it in its place. Yes, I think it’s good.” The Bulman Gary’s Vineyard Grenache Dry Red Wine 2023 – from McLaren Vale – is a different wine but is of the same, elite quality standard, and like its Eden Valley sibling, shines light into places that had previously only known shade. The list of Mattinson Ten Star Wineries is all about the here are now; it’s not a legacy list. We’re only two wines into the launch of the Bulman brand’s story but it has arrived fully formed, and its quality is elite.

Both the 2023 Bulman (single vineyard) grenache releases are fascinating. Winefront reviews here.

Web: Bulman.

Bulman is a Mattinson TEN STAR WINERY. Asset 1. Asset 2. Asset 3.

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Campbell Mattinson is the former Chief Editor of Halliday, and is the founder of The Winefront. He’s authored six books, has won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year award twice, and has been a journalist since 1987. He is also a commercial photographer.