Tapara Studio Collection Mountain Cat Red Blend 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Tapara Studio Collection Mountain Cat Red Blend 2024.

Tapara Studio Collection Mountain Cat Red Blend 2024
AU$36, 14.1% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.

This is a blend of estate-grown Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon.

I’m not overly familiar with Tapara but I’ve now tasted two of its wines and I know this for certain: Tapara makes lovely wines, to the point where they have quickly turned my head. This wine is complex, fluid, juicy and sure, its flavours of blueberry, plum, pepper and smoked herbs as convincing as they are delicious. There’s tannin here, fine and long but not intrusive. I liked this wine from the first sip but I keep coming back to it and enjoying it yet more. It’s savoury and peppery in style but the fruit itself is generous and buoyant.

94 points – Campbell Mattinson.

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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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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