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, 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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