Curtis Family Vineyards Small Batch Grenache 2023
$80, 14% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.
Ripe flavours of raspberry, tar, anise, rust and sweet spice roll into secondary notes of leather and earth. This is a firm, warm and meaty grenache with a fair amount of grunt to it. It will drink at its best over the next couple of years. 91 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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
