Colours of the South Rosso 2022

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.