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.

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This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. 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, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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