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Aroma & Palate | Candied red fruits, cinnamon |
Varietal | Grenache Rosé |
Style | Cheery cherry crispness |
Well made and well priced grenache rose.
Pale crimson in colour, blessed with sweet spice top notes, strawberried through the palate but with inflections of pomegranate and raspberry. There’s a touch of spritz here but it’s not overt and it doesn’t detract. Basically, it drinks well.
90/100 - Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
Coming out of my cage and I’ve been doing just wine. . . but it’s never just wine, is it? This “Mr Brightside” rosé stuns first in the glass, pouring a vibrant pink; Mr Riggs call the hue “pale strawberries and cream”, which hints at the taste but really undersells the colour if you ask me.
Strawberry to start, bit of dried raspberry and a hint of cinnamon, then bright acidity calls to mind lime and pomegranate. A “killer” wine, even. Did you know frontman Brandon Flowers is of the LDS faith and won’t touch alcohol? More for us.
We in the office had been asking for a rosé, and Ben sure has delivered. Now it’s rosé all day, after 5:00pm of course.
Dry, crisp, cherry.
Since 2001, winemaker Ben Riggs, a dead ringer for actor Michael McKean, has produced premium but unpretentious wines from a base in McLaren vale, making use of fruit from both that region and around South Australia.
The wines, driven by Riggs’ own time-honed tastes and whims, are as personality-driven as the label’s name suggests, and display lashings of regional terroir.