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

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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