Curtis Family Vineyards Small Batch Durif 2021
$80, 14% alcohol, screwcap, South Australia.
There’s plenty of throttle to this red wine but it’s also a wine of character. It’s driven by intense roasted plum flavours but then there are flings of rust, orange rind, smoked meat and mineral in the mix too. It’s rich and satisfying but it keeps you interested too. 93 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.
