Monterra Trio Shiraz Mataro Grenache 2022
$35, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.
This isn’t the most complex of wines but then it is easy to like. It’s sweet-fruited – think raspberry and red cherry flavours – though it gradually tends toward floral notes like violets and lavender. There’s some woodsy spice in the mix too, though that sweet hit of raspberried fruit is the main game here. 90 points.
This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.
Mattinson has been a respected wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. 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 prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.
Mattinson puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.
