Moppity Atrius Tempranillo 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Moppity Atrius Tempranillo 2024.

Moppity Atrius Tempranillo 2024
$45, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Hilltops.

I can barely sing the praises of this wine highly enough. The drinkability here – or deliciousness – is elite. It’s juicy and velvety and bright and fruity at once; it has depth and darkness but it’s all served with a spring in its step. It tastes of red and black licorice, violets, aromatic herbs, fresh red cherries and assorted woodsy spice notes. It’s handsomely tethered by firm, ripe, fine-grained tannin. And it has excellent carry through the finish. Everything is spot on. 94 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 (the home of Australia’s best wine reviews) and of Mattinson Photography.

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 is a storyteller. He is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic, and in all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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