Paralian Marmont Vineyard Grenache 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Paralian Marmont Vineyard Grenache 2024 on a white background.

Paralian Marmont Vineyard Grenache 2025
AU$48, 14% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.

The vineyard was planted in 1960, in the Holocene sand of Blewitt Springs. This vineyard is owned by the Cross family. Skye Salter and Charlie Seppelt are the people behind Paralian. All have done the land, and Australian wine, proud here.

This is a sensational grenache. It's so good you just want to dive in and swim out for the horizon; it has that limitless feeling, that dare. It tastes, I guess, of plums and redcurrant, orange rind, citrus blossom, pops of licorice, ozone, morning hay and a sweet open field. It tastes like grapes — red grapes, caressed, squeezed, delivered in a capsule of peeled and then re-installed grape skin. I'm not one for splurging on an expensive meal, but this wine makes me want to splurge on an expensive meal. In a rational world it's worth two or three cents for every cent it asks; in the irrational world we actually live in, it's worth more. 96 points – Campbell Mattinson.

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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.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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