Dowie Doole G&T Grenache Tempranillo 2025
AU$32
13.9% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.
There’s a lot going on in this wine and yet the net effect is that it slips down easily and just plain tastes good. In flavour terms we see black cherry, raspberry, chocolate and various notes of undergrowth, peppercorns, powdered milk, mint and woodsy spice notes. It’s medium in body and it works. Drinking it is a pleasure. 92 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.
