Santa & D’Sas …ish Dolcetto 2019

Written By Campbell Mattinson

Santa & D’Sas …ish Dolcetto 2019
$25, 13.8% alcohol, screwcap, King Valley.

This is perfect for drinking right now. At six years of age it has developed into a gentle-but-well-structured wine with tobacco, leather, fresh black cherry and savoury herb notes to the fore. It feels mellow but it also feels as though it has substance, the latter aided by a churn of velvety tannin. This wine will be at its best with food but it has the stuffing to work in any setting. The winery has done the ageing for you; it’s ready to go now. 90 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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