Rivah Malbec 2024
$19, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Riverland.
This is tasty. Black cherry, red rose and raspberry flavours blend into choc-orange, red licorice and sweet tobacco. It’s juicy, generous and easy to like; the flavours here virtually stumble over themselves in their eagerness to please. It’s not especially deep but it definitely is pleasurable. 90 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.
