Oria-Riff Old Vine Grenache Dry Red 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Oria-Riff Old Vine Grenache Dry Red 2024.

Oria-Riff Old Vine Grenache Dry Red 2024
$45, 14.6% alcohol, DIAM cork, McLaren Vale.

Oh boy. The dymanic duo of wine is to somehow – against the odds and with a fair degree of mystery – produce a wine of both finesse and power. This is a wine that somehow achieves that. It’s sweet, sour and smoky; it shows orange rind and violet notes; it’s cherried; it shows flashes of both licorice root and mint; it’s earthen; and all the while it’s juicy, mouthwatering, lacy and indeed tannic. This is a wine that seduces as it conquers. 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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