Sur La Cote Mediterranee IGP Rose 2024
$40, 13%, DIAM cork, France.
This is excellent. It has flavour, it has tension, it has give and, in the context of dryness, it aims to please. It’s pale in the glass, comes laced with strawberry, chalk, sweet spice and pebble flavours, and feels textural, dry and grippy to close. It’s right in the zone. It’s a great drink. 94 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.
