Iggy Rebula 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson

Iggy Rebula 2023
$45, 13% alcohol, DIAM cork, Adelaide Hills.

Igor ‘Iggy’ Kucic is from Slovenia and so too is the (white) grape variety Rebula. It’s no surprise then that when this variety first became available in Australia that Iggy was desperate to get his hands on it. Given that production of this 2023 release was a miniscule 583 bottles, he clearly doesn’t have many vines to play with. But what he has produced from these vines is an absolute delight. This wine is honeyed and salty, dry and savoury, with apricot and lychee fruit flavours fleshing out the palate. It’s bright and breezy in part, but it’s also complex and nutty. The texture of this wine doesn’t go unnoticed either; it gives the wine an extra, gently-luxurious dimension. This wine isn’t just different; it’s good. 93 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. 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 prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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