Alkina Polygon No 3 Grenache 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Alkina Polygon No 3 Grenache 2022.

Alkina Polygon No 3 Grenache 2022
$295, 14% alcohol, cork, Barossa Valley.

This is a pretty unbelievable wine. It’s a wine of power, it’s a wine of finesse, and it’s a wine with a complex array of flavours and scents, and then into the very tannin profile itself it studs florals and woodsy spice notes galore. It has enough flex to its fruit to suggest that it could be brutish if it wanted to be, but it resists, preferring instead to stroke the feathers of the dove’s head or, in this case, the elaborate berry and spice notes. This wine’s powers of persuasion are vast. 96 points.

This wine was released a year ago but just tasting it now, I thought it was worth a note.

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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