Miners Ridge Tempranillo 2024
$25, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Grampians.
This is a medium-weight red wine with red berry flavours flowing juicily throughout and attractive floral and spice notes pinging as highlights. It’s light-ish but that’s part of its appeal, and the secret to its more-ishness. There’s a rusty, minerally, nutty note to the finish, which adds some extra interest. 90 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.
