Review: Thymiopoulos Xinomavro Young Vines 2021

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Written By Campbell Mattinson

Thymiopoulos Young Vines Xinomavro 2021. This is real, this is good.

Thymiopoulos Young Vines Xinomavro 2021 ($37) is a wine worth buying. It’s a Greek red from Macedonia in the Naoussa region, and apart from the price – mid $30s in Australia and sometimes lower – what I really like is the realness of it. It has no oak flavour, a good start. It has quality mid-weight fruit, and quality tannin, but not too much of either, and not too little either. The flavours here – an assortment of red berries – feel fresh, and free, and crunchy and natural. It’s a quality drink. Unadorned and unfettered. I recommended this wine. I wish there were more like it. It’s good value too.

93 points.

Importer: Deja Vu.
Winery: Thymiopoulos Vineyards
Reviews: Reviews of various Thymiopoulos Vineyards wines on The Winefront.

 
Campbell Mattinson

This post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. 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 national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

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