Purple Hands Planta Circa Cabernet Sauvignon 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Review of Purple Hands Planta Circa Cabernet Sauvignon 2023.

Purple Hands Planta Circa Cabernet Sauvignon 2023
$120, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.

This is a pure, luscious cabernet with subtle leaf-like inputs and meaty, toasty, oak-derived characters woven through. It offers a mouthful of wine in the most polished of ways. It tastes of blackcurrant and mint, mostly, though peppercorn, vanilla-cream and earth contribute to the wine’s general swirl. The tannin here has a bit of push to it too, which is good. This is a svelte, smooth-skinned wine of genuine substance. 95 points.

Campbell Mattinson

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.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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