Purple Hands Grenache 2024
$40, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.
Take juicy grenache fruit flavour and thread it with spicy, fine-grained tannin. This Barossa Valley grenache pushes all the right buttons. It tastes of raspberry, red cherries, fennel seeds, earthen spice and whispers of cedar, and it’s as elegant as it is beautiful to drink. 93 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.
