Black and Ginger Cinco Rojas 2023
$45, 11.5% alcohol, screwcap, Great Western/Grampians.
This is a fresh, nutty, cranberried red wine with drinkability written all over it. It’s a light red, so light in fact that’s its mouthwatering, its flavours written in water-colours rather than in oils. It works though, courtesy of its balance and its breadth of savoury flavours. This wine will work best as an accompaniment to food, rather than on its own. 90 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.
