Mount Pleasant Mountain A Medium Bodied Dry Red 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Mount Pleasant Mountain A Medium Bodied Dry Red 2024.

Mount Pleasant Mountain A Medium Bodied Dry Red 2024
AU$100, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Hunter Valley.

Those sensational red berried fruit flavours, those ribbons of alpine herbs and graphite, that gentle adornment of sweet, spicy oak matched to pods of cardamon and iron; this is a cracking wine, so more-ish, so classic, and just so plainly and effortlessly sophisticated. I tasted this over the course of three days; it was excellent from the start and all it did thereafter was improve. Glory be. This is what wine is all about. Grown on 1965-planted vines. I’m scoring it at 95 points but I could easily have gone a point higher. 95 points – Campbell Mattinson.

See also [Mount Pleasant Mattinson 10-Star Winery]

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.

More about Campbell Mattinson

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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