Red Knot GSM 2023

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Written By Campbell Mattinson

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

Red Knot GSM 2023
AU$14

“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.

89 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.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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