Hesketh Woodside Gamay 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Hesketh Woodside Gamay 2024.

Hesketh Woodside Gamay 2024
$32, 13%, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.

The smart money is going into gamay, both from a wine producer and from a wine drinker perspective. It’s just such an excellent (red) grape variety, neither too heavy nor too light, great for both drinking and for admiring, and perfectly suited to the dinner table. This release from Hesketh is a bit of an Exhibit A in all those regards. It’s spicy, nutty, cherried, juicy and more-ish, the velvet of its texture freshened beautifully by refreshing acidity. Yes please. More please. In a heartbeat. Love this. 93 points.

Campbell Mattinson

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.

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