Topuridze Mtsvane 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Topuridze Mtsvane 2024.

Topuridze Mtsvane 2024
12% alcohol, cork, Georgia.

Zurab Topuridze is an outstanding producer of Georgian wine. The Topuridze wines are worth seeking out and thereafter following. I tasted a great many wines on a recent trip to Georgia – maybe two or three hundred – and the Topuridze range was one of the key discoveries. The Topuridze website is worth a look too. I only had the chance to experience these wines briefly – hence the brief note – but the impression that they made was clear.

Bang on. Texture, intensity through the palate, a sense of wildness throughout but in the context of control. I'm sure that this wine is both savoury and fruity but the impression and feel of it is that it’s seamless. That’s a feat. I love the dry, chalky, salty, smoky character of this wine, and especially the way it manifests and elevates through the finish. 94 points.

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I also reviewed the Topuridze Golden Blend 2024 on the (subscriber) Winefront site here.

Campbell Mattinson

This post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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