Daosa Rosé 2023
AU$65, 12.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, Adelaide Hills.
There’s drama in the glass here. Grapefruit and redcurrant notes blend with citrus rind, olives in brine, cherries and musk. It carries savoury notes in its pockets but the blend of fruit flavours is both unusual and seductive. This is a champion drink.
94 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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
