Monterra Reserve GSM 2025
AU$60, 14.5%, screwcap, McLaren Vale.
This is serious gear. It’s bold but it’s structural, dry and certain. It tastes of roasted plums, black cherries, redcurrant, peppercorn, earth and leather, the latter adding a mellow softness to the wine’s overall firmness. Indeed despite this wine’s stuffing it’s in remarkably good shape for drinking right now.
94 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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
