Thistledown’s This Charming Man Old Vine Grenache 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Thistledown This Charming Man Old Vine Grenache 2024.

Thistledown This Charming Man Old Vine Grenache 2024
AU$95, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.

Grown on the Smart vineyard at Clarendon in McLaren Vale.

The finesse of this wine, the inherent balance, the array, the interest. And the length. This is a superb wine. Light but insistent, powerful where it needs to be, awash with spice and cherried fruit, and so gorgeously long, sinewy and fine through the finish, the mark of excellence. This is a grenache for the true believers. You don’t just drink this, you come home to it.

96 points – Campbell Mattinson.

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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.

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