Watkins Grenache 2022
$25, 14.5%, screwcap, Langhorne Creek.
When grenache is made in a fresh, unforced way it makes for wonderful, fun-but-serious drinking. This is an example of a grenache that fits with the fresh-faced style, and as a result is excellent to drink. It tastes of raspberries, red cherries, sweet spice and peppercorns and while it has substance, it’s not heavy or taxing. There’s good buying/drinking to be had here. 91 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.
