Haselgrove Premium Bella Vigna 2021
$35, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.
This is a medium-weight red wine with firm, well-crafted tannin and a dry, sure-footed finish. It feels immaculate from start to finish. It tastes of cloves, red and black berries, smoky oak and sweet, woodsy spices, though as it breathes warm, black licorice characters emerge. This is a satisfying red wine in every respect. 92 points.
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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
