Gapsted Estate Grand Manseng 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Gapsted Estate Grand Manseng 2023.

Gapsted Estate Grand Manseng 2023
$65, 13.8% alcohol, screwcap, Alpine Valleys.

Wonderful white wine. Highly textural, loaded with character, and powerful in its presentation of flavour. In short, it has quality covered from all angles. It tastes of apple, grapefruit, chalk, saltbush, nectarine and steel, and the way it both flows with flavour and grips through the finish is really quite beautiful. There’s much pleasure to be had here. It’s different in a good way. This is excellent. 94 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been a respected wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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