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

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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