Eastern Laneway Vintners Shiraz 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Eastern Laneway Vintners Shiraz 2024.

Eastern Laneway Vintners Shiraz 2024
$15, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Grampians.

Buy this wine. Give it a chance to breathe – pour it into a jug and then pour it back into the bottle – and it really does knock the value equation out of the park. Actually it’s not just a value wine; it’s a genuinely good one. It tastes of red and black cherry, aniseed, cloves and black pepper, and while it offers a nod to savouriness it’s basically fruit-driven. The result is that it’s an excellent wine to drink, full stop, though it also has more complexity than you usually see at this price. In short, it’s a steal.

(As an aside, this wine is made by two winemakers who really know their onions, so to speak, and who both make top-grade wine, under their own labels. These guys have high standards and don’t know how to make bad wine, no matter the price point. In tandem here they’ve created a wine exclusively for Aldi, and the winner is us wine drinkers.)

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. 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, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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