Bondar Junto Grenache Mataro Shiraz 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Bondar Junto GSM 2024.

Bondar Junto Grenache Mataro Shiraz 2024
$32, 14% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.

Fine-grained wine. Elegant. Lengthy. And lovely. This is a grenache-mataro-shiraz blend from McLaren Vale that I loved drinking. It tastes of raspberry, red cherry, sweet spice and purple flowers, and it feels tight and exactingly-well-crafted throughout. Reduction has been put to positive – though modest– effect too, adding a slight smokiness, and adding to that tight, dry impression. If you like the light-spicy-structural style, you'll love this. 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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