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, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. 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, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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