Colours of the South Rosso 2022

5 Feb

Colours of the South Rosso 2022
$35, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.

Now we’re talking. This attractive light-to-medium weight red wine is made with negroamaro, montepulciano and aglianico grapes. It’s the Barossa Valley, soft and (deliciously) drinkable, but not quite as we usually know it, or at least with a point of difference. This is the kind of red wine that you’re tempted to drink from tumblers – though your best tumblers, of course – in that it just has ‘drink me’ written all over it. It’s quite beautiful, really. It tastes of red berries, red licorice, dried Italian herbs, musk, peanuts and potpourri. It’s soft in general but it has just enough firmness to give it some shape. The word impeccable springs to mind. It’s a lighter style but everything about this wine is good. 93 points.

Colours of the SouthPurple Hands WinesBarossa Valley

Campbell Mattinson

This post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. 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 national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

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