After Five Montepulciano 2023

7 Feb

After Five Montepulciano 2023
$40, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.

There’s something just a little enchanting about this different-but-good red wine from the Barossa Valley. It carries fruit flavour, ripe and sweet-ish, but it also feels refreshing in a mouthwatering way, its acidity and flowery-herb notes giving it an energy, not to mention a deliciousness. This is an excellent rendition of the Montepulciano grape, it has to be said. Grapey tannin, a keen juiciness, and flavour without being over the top. The only real problem here is that it’s hard to stop yourself from drinking more. 93 points.

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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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