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 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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