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

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.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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