Purple Hands Wines Planta Circa Ancestor Vine Grenache 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Purple Hands Wines Planta Circa Ancestor Vine Grenache 2025.

Purple Hands Wines Planta Circa Ancestor Vine Grenache 2025
$175, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.

This is medium weight and lithe but it feels statuesque as it passes through your mouth. Indeed you can’t help but admire the tight, rigid control of this wine. In flavour terms it’s redolent of lavender, raspberry, crushed dry spices and Christmas cake, with rust and general potpourri characters stitched straight into the fruit. This is some kind of wine. Light, tannic. fragrant and powerful at once; it’s a beauty. 95 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.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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