Franca's Vineyard Tempranillo 2025
$22, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Riverland.
Go forth and prosper. This is a very good wine at a very good price. It’s ripe and sweet-fruited and generous and enjoyable. Plump flavours of red licorice, plum, raspberry and peppercorn sing satisfyingly through the palate and on into a well-sustained finish. You’re on a winner here. 91 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.
