Francesca Grillo Collina Calcera Syrah 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson

Francesca Grillo Collina Calcera Syrah 2024
$38, 13.8% alcohol, cork, Eden Valley.

There’s more than one way to serve Barossa Valley shiraz, and this super-juicy example from Torzi Matthews – under the name Francesca Grillo Collina Calcera Syrah 2024 – is a particularly enjoyable way.

This is just such an interesting wine. It’s both flavoursome and sweet-fruited but frisky and herbal. Food here we come. Olives green and black, blueberries, raspberries, red licorice and citrus peel. Aromatically it’s really up and about; flavour-wise it’s both refreshing and fruit-filled. This wine – which is grown on vines planted way back in 1932 – is a bit different and a lot good. 94 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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