Alkina Estate Grenache 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Alkina Estate Grenache 2025.

Alkina Estate Grenache 2025
$55, 14% alcohol, DIAM cork, Barossa Valley.

This is a totally gorgeous wine and after one healthy sip I was totally onboard. The spread of fine, almost sandy tannin; the bloom of red licorice, red cherry and strawberry-like fruit flavour; the spice notes coming at you like a hand net flung out across the bay; the way orange peel notes curl and flutter; the way tannin – I’m onto the tannin again – emerges like skin off the flesh and the bone of the wine proper. This is where we’re at. This is the goods. This is a fit, medium weight wine of sinew and import. 95 points.

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Alkina is a Mattinson 10-Star Winery.
There are 45 Alkina wines reviewed on The Winefront site.

 
Campbell Mattinson

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.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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