Mr Riggs Montepulciano d'Adelaide 2024
AU$30, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide.
This is an easy wine to like. Black cherry and black licorice flavours swing effortlessly through the palate, bringing dried Italian herbs, leather, iodine and citrus peel characters along for the ride. It has a softness but then it also has enough tannin to shape it. In short, it’s lovely to drink.
92 points – Campbell Mattinson.
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.
