Cain Chenin Blanc 2024
$36, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.
Concentration, character and an impression of completeness. This is an excellent chenin blanc grown on old vines in the Vine Vale sub-region of the Barossa Valley. It spent time in neutral oak and has the texture to prove it, but it’s the authority of the fruit, the spicy crackle of the finish and the all-round taut control that really impresses. This is an excellent white wine all over. 94 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.
