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

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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