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

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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