Curtis Family Vineyards Small Batch Grenache Shiraz 2021

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Curtis Family Vineyards Small Batch Grenache Shiraz 2021.

Curtis Family Vineyards Small Batch Grenache Shiraz 2021
$80, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, South Australia.

The delivery of flavour here is excellent. It comes in soft sheets, ingrained with fine-grained tannin, woven with earth and spice notes, and ultimately long and juicy to close. It’s textbook in the most positive of ways; it’s bold and elegant at once; it’s modern Mclaren Vale and traditional Mclaren Vale in one. This is a beautiful wine. It’s both pretty and powerful. 95 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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