Tierra del Puerco Challenger Grenache Mataro Malbec 2020
- 91
- $25
- Drink by: 2022-2025
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A GMM rather than a GSM and what a difference the last two Ms make. It weighs in at 14% alcohol, but don’t go assuming it’s another Barossan red blend on the larger side. Nope, this wine moves to a different beat in the opposite direction. The choice of Mataro and Malbec brings some delicious spiciness out to play alongside Grenache with a touch of bright pepperiness to the cherry, red fruits and plum. Everything falls nicely within a lighter to medium bodied dry red frame, something to be easily enjoyed solo. Fine tannins make it almost slurpable. Fab price.
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.
