Thorn-Clarke Single Vineyard Malbec 2024
$45, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.
Grown own the St Kitts vineyard in the north reaches of the Barossa Valley.
This is rich, svelte, smooth and characterful. It tastes of sweet ripe plums, earth, iron, vanilla and cedar, with toast and bay leaf notes infused attractively throughout. It’s super-satisfying and super-smooth, the latter in the best and freshest of ways. This is a tip top drink. 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.
