Tyrrell’s

Tyrrell's is a Mattinson Ten Star Winery.

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

The Tyrrell’s winery is the green light at the end of the Australian wine pier. It sits as a beacon on its Hunter Valley hill, its old school ways and values more modern and relevant than ever. This family produces terrific wine after terrific wine, most especially with chardonnay, semillon and shiraz but really, with whatever it turns its hand to. Tyrrell’s is a pillar of strength for its region, and a home base for those of us who cherish fine wine’s most essential trait: to produce a portrait of a place, painted in wine, sealed in a bottle.

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There have been 413 Tyrrell’s wines reviewed on The Winefront.
Gary Walsh is an expert on the wines of Tyrrell’s and covers all the major releases, every year, on The Winefront site. No one in the world covers the wines of Tyrrell’s better or with more depth than Gary Walsh.

There have been 26 vintages of Tyrrell’s Vat 47 Chardonnay covered on The Winefront.

There have been 22 vintages of Tyrrell’s 4 Acres Shiraz covered on The Winefront.

There have been 18 vintages of Tyrrell’s Vat 9 Shiraz covered on The Winefront, plus notes from a vertical tasting of Tyrrell’s Vat 9 Shiraz 1972–2019.

Reviews of various Tyrrell’s semillon releases – the Hunter Valley’s signature and most celebrated white wine variety – on The Winefront are almost too numerous to count. And yet these wines are customarily magnificent.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. 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 prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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