Black & Ginger The Gypsy Vermentino 2024
$35, 13.4% alcohol, screwcap, Western Victoria.
This wine is fundamentally delicious. It’s a dry white wine but the fruit flavours have both punch and an air of the exotic. Lime, orange, slate and nashi pears characters come with a general tonic-like edge. It’s not a complicated wine but it still manages to offer that something extra. There’s texture here too which never hurts. This is a lovely wine. 94 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.
