Corymbia Rocket’s Vineyard Tempranillo Malbec 2024
$46, 13.8% alcohol, screwcap, Swan Valley.
Intensity of fruit and indeed texture are both high class here but it’s the wave of velvety tannin that grabs at your memory and refuses to let go. This is a memorably good wine. Fruit, coal, earth, rust, mineral and old flowers; all these notes form a raft of flavour and nuance that won’t easily be stopped. 94 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.
