Schwarz Wine Co. Thiele Road Grenache 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Schwarz Wine Co. Thiele Road Grenache 2024.

Schwarz Wine Co. Thiele Road Grenache 2024
$50, 13.8% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.

Beautiful grenache. Light and flavoursome at once. Raspberry, earth, ferrous notes, mint and lavender characters shape into toast, rust and woodsy spice. There’s good ripeness to the fruit here but the wine still presents as fresh and vigorous. There’s an attractive interplay between sweet fruit and more savoury, spicy notes too. This is a very good wine. 93 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
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