2022 Teusner Joshua GMS

James Suckling

I remember loving these wines when they first hit the scene, becoming disgruntled with them around a decade later. The structural elements seemed to have become too hard; too forced. Not any longer. This recent suite is delicious. Poised, pulpy, aromatic, juicy, dutifully savory and bound to nicely wrought tannins. Here, case in point. A bit reductive before lilac, poached red cherries, raspberry bon bon, eucalyptus and briar shimmy long, compressed and corralled by a fine bone of chalky tannin. Drink or hold. Screw cap.

Campbell Mattinson - The Wine Front

Grenache, mataro and shiraz generally made in a fresh, earthen style. Earth, yes, but there’s a fruit sweetness too. Raspberries and blackberries with licorice and sweet spice, inlaid with florals, rust and fresh/sweet earth. This is clean as a whistle, joyous and generous. It rollicks along. It’s not overdone but it has good depth; it’s balanced. Everything here feels right. Tannin too is particularly well managed, in a non-assertive way.