Tenafeate Creek Wines One Tree Hill Malbec 2024
$35, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Mount Lofty Ranges.
This wine is its own beast. From the first sip it makes you stop and take notice. It carries exaggerated red berry characters and combines them with musk, sawdust, floral notes and assorted woodsy spices. At every step it feels free-flowing and, indeed, generous. It’s a pleasure to spend time with. 92 points.
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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
