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

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 (the home of Australia’s best wine reviews) and of 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. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson is a storyteller. He is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic, and in all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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