The Winefront is Australia’s most active wine library with more than 300,000 wine entries. With wine writer, publisher and former editor of Halliday Wine Companion, Campbell Mattinson at the helm, The Winefront takes an insightful look across the wines of Australia. Campbell recently took a look at a few of our new Central Ranges wines. Discover more at www.winefront.com.au
2024 RENZAGLIA SANGIOVESE
94 POINTS “This is a beautiful sangiovese. It slips straight into the realm of ‘light but insistent’, which is a great way for any wine to be but especially for sangiovese. Mid red colour, fresh red-and-black cherry flavours, earth and spice notes, purple flower characters too. Peppercorns but as whispers. It’s the flow of fruit, the tension, and the filigreed tannin that really set this wine apart. It takes complexity in its stride, is beautifully structured, and tastes delicious. Win-win-win.” The Winefront, Campbell Mattinson
2024 RENZAGLIA CHARDONNAY
94 POINTS “Chardonnay from the NSW Central Ranges (or to be more precise: Orange). This is excellent. Excellent concentration of fruit and personality plus. Honeysuckle, lychee, peach, citrus and nectarine with cream and sweet cedar-spice notes. Full box and dice in a way, but controlled and cohesive. All this at 12.5% alcohol. Like this wine a lot.” The Winefront, Campbell Mattinson
2024 RENZAGLIA RIESLING
90+ POINTS “Riesling grown on the Patina Vineyard at Orange. This is a daring riesling, light and piercing but textural. It will need food or time. Lemon, wax, citrus rind, blossomy characters, and ample acid drive. Texture adds to the wine’s weight and presence though the flavours themselves remain slim. Another 12 months in bottle, even, will do this wine a world of good.” The Winefront, Campbell Mattinson
2024 RENZAGLIA PINOT GRIS
92 POINTS “Pinot Gris from the Chalou Vineyard in Orange. This is part of Renzaglia’s “Central Ranges” line. Bronze in colour, amber-ish. Plenty going on in the glass. Nashi pears, yeast, spices, cooked apples and brine. Skinsy texture and flavour profile, but fresh and energetic. Good wine. Juicy and refreshing but textural and complex.” The Winefront, Campbell Mattinson
2024 RENZAGLIA GRENACHE TEMPRANILLO
92 POINTS “Perfumed introduction and then a fleshy mix of fruitiness and savouriness. Cherries, dried herbs, earth, violet and smoked meat characters with whispers of both red and black licorice. A run of tannin complements nicely, as does a smidgen of nutty oak. Nice wine all around.” The Winefront, Campbell Mattinson
