Flowstone Touriga 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Flowstone Touriga 2024.

Flowstone Touriga 2024
$36, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Margaret River.

The oak on this wine needs time to settle in and down but in all other respects this is exceptional. The interest, the spread of tannin, the length of the finish; it goes straight into wow territory. It tastes of woodsmoke, cedar, strings of herbs, red cherry, dust and mint, and the way that it fans across the palate and then lingers on is exceptional. Give it another year in the bottle and then you’re off to the races. 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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