Moppity Lock & Key Sangiovese 2024
$30, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Hilltops.
Sangiovese is a hard variety to get right but this release makes it look easy. Cherry-plum fruit flavours come with both a licorice boost and savoury, tobacco-like edges, with muscular tannin then giving the wine a bit of chew and grip. This wine will light up the dining table. It has food-friendliness written all over it. 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 an independent 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, who is 100% independent, 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.
