Cape Barren Old Vine Grenache 2024
$60, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.
Champion grenache. Beautiful drinking. It offers grunt and finesse in equal measure, throws savouriness into a fluid stream of exquisite fruit flavour, and flies tannin through the finish in perfect formation. Everything about this wine is good. It tastes of raspberries, red cherries, smoked meats, red roses and resin, and ultimately it just simply feels complete. 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.
