Hither & Yon Grenache Mataro 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Hither & Yon Grenache Mataro 2024.

Hither & Yon Grenache Mataro 2024
$29, 14% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.

For starters this wine is highly drinkable – it’s more-ish – but then it also has a dry, savoury sense of authenticity too. It feels and tastes like a wine that was grown and made out of the earth, if that makes sense. That’s a significant positive. It tastes of raspberries, black cherries, earth, roasted spices and peppercorns. It’s juicy and ripe up front – there’s a bit of red licorice flavour here – but then it’s dry and well honed through the finish. 92 points.

Campbell Mattinson

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.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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