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

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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