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.
Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
