X Provence Rose 2024
$40, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Provence.
Killer rosé. Light, bright, beautifully powered and spicy to close. Sparks fly throughout. Floral notes, strawberries, orange rind and crushed, woodsy spices, fennel along them. This is a dry rosé with all the trimmings. Drinking it is like attending a rosé masterclass. 95 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.
