The Hedonist Grenache Shiraz Mataro 2025
AU$30, 13.6% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.
The Hedonist wines are singing. This is tasty, textural and well-sustained. It tastes of redcurrant, saltbush, earth, rust, marshmallow and blackberry jubes, and while it’s fresh and energetic there’s enough substance to make it feels 100% convincing. It drinks like a charm. It feels authentic. It’s very good.
93 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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
