Russell & Suitor Alejandro Montepulciano 2024
$35, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Murray Darling.
This is enjoyable. In fact it’s highly enjoyable. It’s (dark) berried and summery and generous and joyous. It tastes of raspberries and black cherries and sweet spices and mocha, and its weave is so open that drinking it is like rushing into someone’s open arms. 90 points.
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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
