2023 Spinifex Luxe Rose

The 'Luxe' Rose is Pete Schell's homage to Bandol Rose, being Mataro/ Mourvedre dominant, with smaller amounts of Cinsault and Vermentino in the mix.  It's only released in the best vintages.

Old bush-vine fruit and aging on lees in old French barrels all help create a wine of savoury power and wonderful length. Spicy, succulent and full of layers, it is a gem of a wine.

Not much around, so grab some now, and if you can leave in the cellar for a few years, your reward will be ample.

95 points
"Pete Schell is a bit of a wizz at rosé, here 51/40/9% grenache/mataro/cinsault. I've got an inkling Pete might drink a bit of Bandol rosé, so that should guide you to his winery's style. It's like an extra utensil at the dinner table. Redcurrant, raspberry, watermelon, soft spice, blood orange, dried herbs, savoury, umami, stony, boardshorts, sunhat, seafood, tick."
- Dave Brookes (Halliday Wine Companion)

93+ points
"Beautiful rosé. Bone dry. Strawberried and earthen, spicy and direct, with a slip of grape-skin texture and excellent citrus-driven length. Raspberry and blackcurrant bud characters bloom as the wine breathes but its earthen, spicy, stony dryness prevails throughout. In drinking terms it has at least another couple of summers in it."
- Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)