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

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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