Vinya Vella Old Bush Vine Grenache 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Vinya Vella Old Bush Vine Grenache 2024.

Vinya Vella Old Bush Vine Grenache 2024
$65, 14.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, Barossa Valley.

Old vines, here, means Vine Vale – a Barossa bush-vine vineyard pushing 120 years old.

What I love is the raspberried burst of sweet fruit sitting dead centre of this wine, wrapped in savoury spice. Neither cancels the other out. Sweetness isn't weakness here, and savouriness isn't mere virtue – the joy of this wine is the way in which it holds and weaves both. Pristine fruit, firm tannin, buoyant aroma, an old sea bed of herbs, spice and dried citrus rind; it’s exotic, it’s real, it’s more. 96 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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