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

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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