Teakle Rosé 2025
$26, 12% alcohol, screwcap, The Peninsulas South Australia.
This rosé is crimson-coloured and tastes of raspberry, orange oil, sweet spice and strawberry. It’s a racy rosé with a touch of twiggy-herb complexity but with jellied raspberry flavours as the main stream. I’m tasting this in June 2025 and it’s a little arms and legs at present but come the summer of 2025/26 it should be singing. 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.
