Lost Buoy Grenache 2022
AU$25, 15.5% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.
Sweet fruit flavour comes rushing up at you here. Raspberries, cherries, oranges and sweet spice notes are served in a warm, energetic and (highly) appealing burst. It’s dry and rusty through the finish, in a good way, but the palate itself is sweet and juicy with fruit. 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.
