Balnaves of Coonawarra The Blend 2024
AU$21, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Coonawarra.
You pretty much should just buy this wine every year, all the time. It will never let you down. This release tastes of red and black berries, nicely ripened but not over-ripened, with mint, dried herbs and a lick of salted caramel rounding it out. It’s bang on form, as it always is.
91 points – Campbell Mattinson.
Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
