Hare’s Chase Mataro Rosé 2024
- 93
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2027
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Mataro – aka Mourvédre – is a natural for Rosé. Blessed with both tannin and acidity, fruit and spice, it works brilliantly here. Offers the lightest of blushes. Aromas rise and rise in dusty wild strawberry, raspberry, cherries – summer bright – with earth. Boasts a lovely delicacy – this is the opposite of strident and loud – employing Mataro’s naturally gentle spiciness, a touch of confection, a hint of pepper and garrigue laid out against the summeriest of berry fruits. Brings a nice textural element across the palate finishing crisp and super fresh. Doesn’t mind a good chill, either, and is pretty versatile whether enjoying a glass or enjoying with food.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
