Tonic Wines Mataro 2021 (6 Bottles) Barossa Valley

by Wines Australia

$222.00 GST Included

AUSTRALIA WIDE SHIPPING INCLUDED

The 25 words or less version: For OG Tonic fans. There’s firm tannins, there’s savouriness, there’s a generous whack of charm – Mataro is back.

The GB version: Mataro is where it all began. I love this grape variety as it embodies everything I look for in a red wine. Red to purple fruits, a gamey, savoury edge, firm structural tannin but can embrace a feeling of real charm.

The winemaking is the same as our Tonic Grenache: hand-picked, some whole bunch employed in fermentation for perfume and that savoury something. Post ferment our benign neglect kicks in, topped regularly in old barriques and puncheons but otherwise untouched. Racked and sulphured just before bottling. In my opinion, the star variety in the Barossa Valley.

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About Tonic Wines

Tonic Wines is Glenn Barry – a small batch winemaker crafting high quality wines from curated sites in the Barossa, Clare Valley, McLaren Vale and beyond. On a quest for truth in flavour, Glenn leans on the grapes themselves for guidance from vintage to vintage – a process he likes to call ‘benign neglect’.

Predominantly organic and with a sensitive but pragmatic approach in winemaking style, these regionally expressive wines include a Chardonnay, Grenache, Mataro, Malbec and Shiraz, with an accompanying limited release Reserve run.

The name ‘Tonic’ offers a respectful nod to the apothecaries, spice merchants, botanists and dark arts healers of yesteryear – master craftspeople steeped in history. Bold and courageous. Nourishing and healing and their own rather special ways.

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