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

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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