Monty’s Leap Single Vineyard Rosé 2023
$25, 12.6% alcohol, screwcap, Great Southern.
This is an earthen rosé with pomegranate, woodsmoke, tonic water and sweet spice notes drifting thorough the main run of cranberry and strawberry fruit flavours. It’s a frisky, refreshing style, dry at heart and gently grippy through the finish. It’s best served alongside food. 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.
