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

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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