Tablas Creek Vineyard Esprit de Tablas Rouge 2022
13.5% alcohol, cork, Paso Robles USA.
Tasted briefly but wow, what a wine. Intense raspberry, intense violet and lavender, wild spice, lots of bass, a spread of midtones and then electric treble. Tannin is assertive but grapey, and spicy. Spread of the finish is exceptional. Fruit is as pure and powerful as it is vigorous. Emphatic quality. 96 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.
