Rivah Rosé 2025
$18, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Riverland.
This is pale crimson in colour and carries attractive red berry fruit flavours. It tastes of raspberry, watermelon and sweet red cherry, the latter tempered by notes of aromatic dried herbs. There’s texture to this wine, and plenty of zip. 89 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.
