Purple Hands Planta Circa Cabernet Sauvignon 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Purple Hands Planta Circa Cabernet Sauvignon 2024.

Purple Hands Planta Circa Cabernet Sauvignon 2024
AU$120, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.

What I like about this release is that it’s thick with flavour – it’s genuinely rich with ripe, curranty fruit – and feels so plush throughout that it easily qualifies as luxurious. And yet, also, it feels controlled and indeed elegant. It’s old school and new school at once; it’s unashamedly full-bodied, but simultaneously neat and balanced. It also has ribs of spicy, fine-grained tannin, which will serve it well as it ages. It is, in short, Barossa Valley cabernet in top form.

95 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.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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