Red Knot Classified GSM 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Red Knot Classified GSM 2025.

Red Knot Classified GSM 2025
AU$19, 14% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.

I’m not going to call this the best-value wine on the shelves of Dan Murphy’s stores – it’s exclusive to Dan Murphy’s and BWS – but it is one of the better ones. The fruit flavours here have genuine power, it feels ripe and sweet-fruited but it’s not too sweet-fruited, it carries an attractive array of spice notes, there are cola and cocoa-like aspects to the flavours, and it’s dry and well-shaped through the finish. The Under $20 + Over 90 Points combination isn’t common; this wine is therefore uncommonly good value.

91 points – Campbell Mattinson.

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.

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