Tablas Creek Vineyard Grenache 2023
14.5% alcohol, cork, Paso Robles USA.
Biodynamically-grown grenache from a beautiful farm in Paso Robles. Reduction has been used to positive effect here. This is red fruited, spicy and dry with licorice and dried flowers notes bleeding into woodsmoke and peat. Intensity meets charisma. This is so tasty and yet so delicate. It has some warmth but it remains intricate. Structure is exemplary. Brilliant wine. 95 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.
