Tim Smith Wines Mataro 2021
G 93
Deep crimson. Great imapct of intense blackberry, iodine aromas with mocha, herb notes. Slightly sweet with powerful blackberry and iodine flavours topped by graphite lead pencil notes with fine loose-knit chalky textures and a touch of bush garrigue. Lovely mid-palate volume and mineral length with meaty complexity on the finish. Now–2028 Purple Hands Wines Colours of the South Mourvèdre 2020 G 93 Medium-deep crimson. An elegant and juicy style with intense elderberry, blackberry, black pepper aromas before launching into plentiful dark berry fruit flavours with peppery notes, fine graphite/ sinewy textures and attractive mineral length. A successful fruit-driven early-drinking modern style. Now–2026 Gatt Wines Accent Mataro 2018 G 92 Medium-deep crimson colour followed by a vibrant and fruit-forward wine with fresh strawberry, cherry, sweet fruit aromas and flavours with plentiful lacy/ chalky textures, and attractive pinot-like viscosity. Gentle and smooth with a fine tannin plume on the finish. Now–2026 Hayes Family Wines Barossa Valley Rouge Mataro 2021 G 92 A reserved style of Mataro that already feels close to its peak with fleshy, sweet fruits aromas of mulberry and blackbery with savoury leathery notes adding a good dose of varietal typicty. Beautifully approachable palate that is juicy and supple with good concentration of red fruits with well managed tannins. An early-drinking style of mataro with serious Medium-deep crimson. Intense black cherry, liquorice aromas with mocha grilled almonds/ marzipan notes. Sweet smooth blackberry, cola, mocha flavours and fine slinky textures before buidling towards a brambly firm and rustic finish. Now–2026 Schwarz Wine Co Meta Mataro 2021 G 92 Deep crimson colour with intense meaty, cola, blackberry aromas with a savoury/earthy edge. Complex and dense on the palate with attractive dark berry fruits, chinotto, meaty notes again and fine al dente brambly textures before finishing grippy firm well balanced with plentiful sweet fruit. Now–2028 drinkability. Now–2025 Paisley Wines Clurichaun Mataro 2018 G 92
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