Oria-Riff Old Vine Grenache Dry Red 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Oria-Riff Old Vine Grenache Dry Red 2025.

Oria-Riff Old Vine Grenache Dry Red 2025
$45, 13.2% alcohol, DIAM cork, McLaren Vale.

It’s a pretty wine with rose petal, general potpourri and sweet spice notes flying through bright red cherry, fresh and blueberry fruit flavours. But it’s the fine-grained spread of tannin – so firm, so fine, like a fishing line on the strain – that propels this wine to great heights. I’m scoring this wine at 94/100 but if I was going to change the score one way or the other, I’d go 95. So it’s a solid 94, with potential for more. At $45 is very good/excellent buying. 94/100.

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 highly respected The Winefront site (founded 2002) and Mattinson Photography.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. 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 prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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