Russell & Suitor Alejandro Montepulciano 2025
$35, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Murray Darling.
This presents a mountain of soft, ripe, sweet-accented fruit flavour. It’s as easy to like as it is to dive in for another glass. It tastes of an assortment of dark, ripe, summer berries with floral and sweet spice inflections. It’s flavoursome but then it’s also ever-so-soft. 89 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.
