CRFT Mencia Rose 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of CRFT Mencia Rose 2025.

CRFT Mencia Rose 2025
$32, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.

This pale copper-crimson rosé is an absolute beauty. A lot of pale rosé wines taste of apples or, at the very least, taste like white wines with a slight tinge of colour. This rosé tastes like it was made from red grapes; it tastes strawberried and red cherried with attractive highlights of spice, leaf, green olives and assorted florals. It’s dry and serious through the fnish, with some grip as well, but the palate is all joy. Go you good thing. This is excellent. 94 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of both The Winefront site (founded in 2002, and the home of Australia’s best Australian wine reviews) and Mattinson Photography.

Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the national Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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