Anvers Barbera 2022
$38, 14% alcohol, screwcap Adelaide Hills.
This is a light, frisky, savoury-accented red wine with cherry-berry flavours floating throughout. It has good, easy-going drinkability and just enough savoury-spice to give the flavour profile some breadth. Drink this one now; it’s not for cellaring. 90 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.
