97 Points - Marcus Ellis
Established in 2021, MMAD is the impressive venture of the quartet behind Shaw + Smith and Tolpuddle, namely; Martin Shaw, Michael Hill Smith MW, Adam Wadewitz and David LeMire MW. Using each letter of their first names to create MMAD (pronounced 'MAD'), this single vineyard label is about focusing on the beauty of Blewitt Springs in South Australia's McLaren Vale.
Despite its relatively new arrival on the Australian wine scene, the wines of MMAD are already receiving widespread acclaim, and our very limited stocks of the 2022 vintage release are sure to go quickly.
"97 Points. This is ballistically good. I doubt that I’ll taste anything much better from these shores over the next 12 months. The first thing you notice is the plushness, which is always welcome, but it’s the the finish that takes things to eleven. Wow, really, this wine has a show-stopping finish on it. It’s blessed with red and blue berry flavours, cedarwood, roasted spice and earth, but itemising the flavours of this wine kind of misses the point. It’s like focussing on the colour of a tidal wave. The complete and utter command of the final flourish of flavour and tannin here feels, as you swallow, like a high water mark. I’m sold, totally sold, on this wine. Tasted: Feb24. 14% alc. $75 Screwcap Drink: 2024 - 2038"- Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front.
"97 Points. This takes time to emerge from the glass. It’s all there, though. There’s a brooding quality at present, with nori, iodine and ferrous notes filtering up through dark red cherry, plum, raspberry and sultry florals. Some spicy, musky characters emerge with air. Tannin is a meaningful factor, a pleasingly natural grape-derived affair, rugged but never rustic. A seriously compelling wine, and further proof of how thrilling McLaren Vale grenache is right now. Screwcap. 14% alc. Drink: 2024 - 2034. $75."- Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion 2025.
