Mike Press Wines Estate Red Blend 2022
$23, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.
Black cherries, blackcurrant, plum and red rose characters combine with toast, woodsmoke, briar bush and twiggy herbs. It’s a noticeably tannic wine, and is now showing the first signs of development, but there’s good volume of flavour here, and plenty of herbal complexity, and alongside food especially it drinks well. 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.
