Purple Hands Planta Circa Ancestor Vine Grenache 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Review of Purple Hands Planta Circa Ancestor Vine Grenache 2023.

Purple Hands Planta Circa Ancestor Vine Grenache 2023
$120, 14.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, Barossa Valley.

Planta Circa Grenache is fast becoming a star. This release creates its own weather and yet, ultimately, it’s elegant, and persistent with it. It’s wild with spice and with berries, and with earthen characters, and with ginger and even with strawberry. There are dark berries notes and then there are bright red things, like treble and bass, while tucked within is the rhythm of blueberry. It’s a lovely wine, it really is. 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.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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