Ulithorne Aureus Grenache 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Ulithorne Aureus Grenache 2024.

Ulithorne Aureus Grenache 2024
$130, 14.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, McLaren Vale.

There’s finesse through the finish here but the palate itself is a blockbuster – in the best of ways. This is a modern twist on a traditional Australian grenache. It’s awash with sweet spice notes, infused with earth, cola and cedar, and propelled throughout by substantial cherry-plum, raspberry and aniseed fruit flavour. It’s seductive, refined and beautifully well sustained. In short, it’s upper echelon. 95 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.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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