Yalumba’s Vat-11 Grenache 2024 wins big at Royal Queensland Wine Show

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Comments on Yalumba Vat-11 Grenache 2024.

Yalumba has won the top Grenache prize at the Royal Queensland Wine Show two years in a row, winning this year with the Yalumba Vat-11 Grenache 2024. Last year it won with the Yalumba Vine Vale Grenache 2023.

The Yalumba Vat 11 Grenache 2024 is a lovely wine it has to be said. I reviewed and scored it on The Winefront site. It’s “deliciousness writ large” or, at least, writ in medium body.

“It’s raspberried, spicy, flecked with anise and pure red licorice, floral in a lavender-like way, and immensely juicy. Tannin has a velvety aspect and so too the palate itself; it feels polished but not overly or excessively so. It’s a quality wine but it’s also a wine that you want to guzzle.”

I rated it 92 points on Winefront, which was likely miserly. This is a good wine. This is a fine achievement. Yalumba is under appreciated.

If you see this wine, buy it.

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.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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