Franca’s Vineyard Grenache 2025
$22, 14% alcohol, screwcap, South Australia.
The aromas here are ultra inviting and it tastes good too. This is a highly floral expression of grenache with raspberry, red cherry, potpourri and sweet spice characters evident in fresh-faced abundance. Needless to say, it drinks well. 89 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.
