Purple Hands Aglianico 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Purple Hands Aglianico 2024.

Purple Hands Aglianico 2024
$45, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.

This is a serious red wine. It’s also a delicious one, but there’s such a wrench of dry, grippy, earthen tannin that you really need to be in the mood, or have the right food, for a red wine with attitude. It tastes of redcurrants and red cherries, bay leaves, citrus rind, chicory and earth, and while it’s awash with dry, grapey tannin, it still manages to feel both refreshing and juicy throughout, and the flavours keep on pulsing appreciably through the finish. Personally I think that is an excellent wine, and would be all over it if it was anywhere near my vicinity. 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 an independent 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, who is 100% independent, 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
Previous

Purple Hands Shiraz 2024
Next

Marnong Estate Blanc de Blancs 2022