Thistledown She’s Electric Old Vine Grenache 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Thistledown She’s Electric Old Vine Grenache 2024 on a white background.

Thistledown She’s Electric Old Vine Grenache 2024
$70, 14% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.

This is a beautiful wine, hands down, full stop. It’s light, perfumed, spicy, earthen, ribbed and riven with fruit and yet delicate, finessed, exquisite. It’s a veil of a wine; lacy, fancy and special. Bring out the best glassware. Put on the oven. Roast something up and believe, as you drink this red-fruited wine from old South Australian vines, that joy exists and indeed has stopped to visit. 95 points.

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And what a complement this wine is to Thistledown This Charming Man Grenache 2024.

Campbell Mattinson

This post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. 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 national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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