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, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. 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; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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