Chalk Hill Tempranillo Grenache 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Chalk Hill Tempranillo Grenache 2024.

Chalk Hill Tempranillo Grenache 2024
$35, 14% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.

The balance of the wine, the sling of fruit, the integrated tannin and the all-round polish; it is the easiest wine to recommend. The fact that the value is in the wine enthusiast’s favour doesn’t hurt either. It tastes of red cherry, tangy orange, plum, sweet spice and dry cola, and at every step it feels as though it knows exactly what it’s doing. I wouldn’t cellar this, I would drink it now-ish, and for that purpose it’s a ripper. 93 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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