Year after year, Hidden Bench produces one of the best pink wines on the planet and 2019 was no exception. As usual, the wine pours a lovely bright pale salmon colour. Wonderful concentration of tart red berry flavours and savoury notes is apparent but it’s the electric core of limestone minerality that grabs my attention, more prominent than I can remember from previous years. There’s great tension between the creamy texture and bracing acidity and the wine tapers off to a long savoury finish. That’s some kind of alchemy going on here.

A very rich rose with berry, herbal and apple notes. Extremely smooth textural notes for a 12% ABV wine.