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

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. 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, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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