Moppity Lock & Key Rosé 2025
$35, 12% alcohol, screwcap, Hilltops.
This delicious rosé was made with Hilltops grenache grapes.
It’s pale, dry, zippy and refreshing, for starters, but it also has good flavour and a smidgen of extra character too. It’s pretty much exactly how you’d like a grenache to present. Red cherry, raspberry, earth, sweet spice and apple characters come inflected with brine and aromatic herbs. It’s lovely. It drinks a treat. 92 points.
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.
