Willunga 100 Grenache 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Willunga 100 Grenache 2024.

Willunga 100 Grenache 2024
$33, 14.5% alcohol, screws ap, McLaren Vale.

Willunga 100 Grenache 2023 was a big winner at the 2025 National Wine Show, which puts this 2024 release into “eagerly anticipated” territory.

For the most part this is a more-ish red wine full of sweet, raspberried fruit flavour. Through the finish though it turns savoury and dry, which gives it a more serious or contemplative side. Win-win. Earth, tobacco, and twiggy herb characters are minor-but-important players here. Grapey tannin is appropriate and attractive icing. 92 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 both The Winefront site (founded in 2002, and the home of Australia’s best Australian wine reviews) and Mattinson Photography.

Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer 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 national 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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