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

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.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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