Russell & Suitor Alejandro Graciano 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Russell & Suitor Alejandro Graciano 2025.

Russell & Suitor Alejandro Graciano 2025
$35, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Murray Darling.

This wine is smarter than your average bear or, rather, better than your average graciano. There’s a lot to like about this. It presents sweet, ripe, free-flowing (red and darker berry) fruit flavours in a casing of nutty savouriness; it has depth but not at the expense of juicy momentum; and it finishes with a flash of dry, grapey grip. It’s a hit. It’s light-ish but it has enough depth to keep everyone happy. 92 points.

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 the highly respected The Winefront site.

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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