X Provence Rose 2025
$45, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Provence.
This is a pale, dry, yeasty rosé with excellent texture, character and freshness. It’s another excellent release. From its (pale) copper colour to its strawberry-and-rust flavours to its grapey softness to the extra kick of both savouriness and fruitiness through the finish – everything is in tip top shape. 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.
