Flowstone Touriga 2023
$36, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Margaret River.
The berry flavours here are served with an attractive freshness, and the herbs notes are placed just so. This is a mid-weight, easy-to-like red wine with extras. The finish has a ferrous quality, the tannin feels grapey, fine and insistent, and there’s a good, all-round juiciness. Not a foot wrong. 92 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.
