Yalumba Vine Vale Grenache 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Yalumba Vine Vale Grenache 2025.

Yalumba Vine Vale Grenache 2025
AU$40, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.

Yalumba is one of the leaders of modern Australian grenache, and is a [Mattinson 10-Star Winery]. This wine is from Yalumba’s Tri-Centenary Vineyard, which grows vines that were planted in 1929, 1949 and 1979. We’re into deep, sandy loam soil here with an underlay of red-brown clay.

This could be the best value grenache in the country. The quality is genuinely good, the style is modern, fresh and aromatically enticing, and while there’s substance there’s also lightness of touch. It’s a firm wine offering both velvet and grit – a classic combination in modern grenache – as it delivers flavours of bright raspberry, licorice all sorts, potpourri and roasted spices. It tastes delicious, feels good, and is bolted firmly in place. It’s a grenache that you should buy in volume rather than in singles. 94 points – Campbell Mattinson.

See also [Best Australian Grenache]

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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