Black & Ginger Grenache Nouveau 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Black and Ginger Grenache Nouveau 2025 on a white background.

Black & Ginger Grenache Nouveau 2025
$35, 14.1% alcohol, screwcap, Great Western/Grampians.

The 2024 edition of this was a fabulous drink and here we are again with another beautiful wine. Indeed this wine is so good that it marks Black & Ginger as a producer of serious note. This release is meaty, smoky and fruity in equal measure, with sweet, ripe, red berried characters thoroughly infused with woodsmoke and dried eucalypt notes. ‘Smoky’ wines are often quite acrid but this wine is anything but; it’s juicy, complex and delicious. Drink now, and drink (very) well. 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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