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

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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