Purple Hands Montepulciano 2024
$XX, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.
The vibrancy of the cherry flavours here is enough to put joy into your heart. These flavours come attached to twiggy herb notes, vanilla, sweet raspberry and violets, with a gentle run of cola-like character through the finish. This is a highly enjoyable red wine. It’s lively, satisfying and engaging all at once. 93 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.
