Cellar Reserve Mataro
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2032
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted game meats, slow-cooked lamb shanks, earthy mushroom stew
✨ Technical Specifications
The Penfolds Cellar Reserve Mataro is a testament to the winery's spirit of experimentation and its reverence for South Australia's viticultural heritage. While Mataro (also known as Mourvèdre) was historically relegated to fortified wines or GSM blends, Penfolds' winemakers sought to elevate this unsung hero into a single-varietal masterpiece under the Cellar Reserve label. Sourced primarily from ancient, dry-grown vineyards in the Barossa Valley, this wine highlights the grape's unique rustic complexity. It is typically fermented in open fermenters and matured in seasoned French oak hogsheads to allow the natural, earthy, and spicy characteristics of the fruit to shine through without being overshadowed by heavy wood influence.
🍾 About the Producer
Founded in 1844 by Dr. Christopher Rawson Penfold and his wife Mary at the Magill Estate in South Australia, Penfolds is one of Australia's oldest and most iconic wine producers. The estate achieved legendary international acclaim during the 1950s under visionary chief winemaker Max Schubert, who created Penfolds Grange and revolutionized the country's winemaking techniques. Driven by a celebrated philosophy of multi-regional and multi-varietal blending, Penfolds sources exceptional fruit across historic Australian terroirs—such as the Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, and Coonawarra—as well as select premier global regions. The house is universally revered for powerful, impeccably structured, and long-lived wines, led by its flagship Grange, Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon, and celebrated Bin series.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Mataro
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
14.0% - 14.5%