Purple Hands Oenotri Montepulciano 2022
$80, 14% alcohol, DIAM cork, Barossa Valley.
This is well shaped and well fruited and feels easy-going throughout. It’s a pleasure to drink without necessarily knocking your socks off. It tastes of black cherries and sweet plums, fragrant herbs and pure raspberry. It has no rough edges and drinking it is a pleasure. 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.
