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.
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.
