Purple Hands Barossa Valley Grenache 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Purple Hands Barossa Valley Grenache 2025.

Purple Hands Barossa Valley Grenache 2025
$45, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.

Saltbush and red cherry flavours run through earth, twiggy spice and cola. This grenache is both light and lovely – not to mention characterful. Indeed what’s really impressive, and delicious, about this wine is the way it combines both savouriness and fruitiness. It’s a treat. It responds beautifully to air too; if you open it now, give it a quick double-decant. The intricacy of the tannin here is (yet) another highlight. 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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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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