Brokenwood

1 Jan

Brokenwood is a Mattinson 10-Star Winery.
Only the best of Australia’s best wineries are ranked as a Mattinson 10-Star Winery.

Given that the Brokenwood winery has been a key member of the Australian wine community for nearly 55 years now, it could be excused for resting on the laurels of its high reputation. The truth, though, is the opposite; Brokenwood remains steadfastly restless, in the best of ways, its thirst for ultimate quality as parched as ever. As a result, the wines of Brokenwood – an iconic Hunter Valley producer – have in a general sense never been in better form. This form is built on numerous annual examples of chardonnay, semillon and shiraz – grown principally in the Hunter Valley, McLaren Vale and Beechworth. Brokenwood is not just an established name; its wine remain benchmark.

Elaborate Brokenwood story here.
Brokenwood Graveyard Shiraz 2023 is pretty damn special.
There have been 33 reviews of Brokenwood Graveyard Shiraz published on The Winefront site.

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Campbell Mattinson

This post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com

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