Bekkers McLaren Vale Grenache 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Bekkers Grenache 2023.

Bekkers McLaren Vale Grenache 2024
$90, 14% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.

Few stars burn quite so bright as McLaren Vale grenache at its best.

This wine takes time to open up and blossom, but once it’s been given that time it puts on a show. It’s coyly beautiful; it keeps its sinewy arms of tannin pressed tight against its chest; it looks at you from the shadows of its earthen, cherried face and casts glances that are full of spice. If this wine was a comedian its humour would be both dry and meticulously observed. It gives off the impression of detail. It uses ribbons of red berried fruit, dried orange rind characters and a general tension to great and pleasing effect. It’s good. It’s firm. It’s insistent. 95 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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