Curtis Family Vineyards Small Batch Tempranillo 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Curtis Family Vineyards Small Batch Tempranillo 2024.

Curtis Family Vineyards Small Batch Tempranillo 2024
$80, 14% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.

This wine has bit of joy about it. It’s both generously flavoured and well sustained; it presents both red and black berry flavours in balanced measure; and while there are signs of coffee-cream oak everything has meshed into one, supple, attractive whole. There are sweet spice and orange rind notes here too, as a bonus. In fact, from start to finish, this wine puts on a bit of a show. 93 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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