Chalk Hill Alpha Crucis Old Vine Grenache 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Chalk Hill Alpha Crucis Old Vine Grenache 2024.

Chalk Hill Alpha Crucis Old Vine Grenache 2024
$65, 14% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.

This presents a sheet of elegant flavour, the fruit beautifully ripened, the spice notes delicately inlaid, and the tannin so fine that it’s part of the wine’s quality and of its insistence. It’s not a heavy wine or an especially deep one, but its cherry-raspberry flavours generate their own power, and there’s genuine flare to the finish. Bang on, this is excellent. 95 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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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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