Red Knot GSM 2023: Review

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Written By Campbell Mattinson

Red Knot McLaren Vale GSM 2023 is “pretty damn good” for a $13 red.

“You'd have to say that the value of this 2023 release is pretty damn good.” That was the conclusion to my review of this 2023 Red Knot GSM, from McLaren Vale, on The Winefront.

I bought this wine because the 2022 version won the Best Red Wine in the History of the World Award, or something like that. Kidding of course. But it made the news, courtesy of the fact that it’s a wine that can be bought for under $15 (I paid $13 for this) and it had won some kind of major international award.

I wouldn’t personally be giving this 2023 any major awards, on pure quality terms, but I would say that it offers outstanding value. $13 for a well balanced, expressive, mid-weight, delicious wine to drink is noteworthy. The packaging looks a bit cheap but you could take the wine inside the bottle anywhere.

Reccomended?: Yes, highly.
Paid: $13.
Pros: Bright fruit, dry finish, juicy and delicious.
Cons: Daggy packaging but, as they say in the classics, you can’t drink a label.

More value recommendations on Mattinson’s Best Value Wine blog.

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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