Red Knot Shiraz 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Red Knot Shiraz 2023 ready for review.

Red Knot Shiraz 2023
$11, 14% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.

First things first: this is Red Knot Shiraz 2023 the $11 version – it’s not the Red Knot Classified Shiraz 2023 version. The Classified version is better but is also $6 more expensive.

So what’s the honest truth about this 2023 version of the popular Red Knot Shiraz? It presents a good volume of cherry-berry flavours with a light seasoning of smoky/toasty oak flavours, along with a subtle-but-important floral element; think potpourri, dragged briefly through the wine and then discarded. Of course they didn’t actually do that, but that’s how the wine tastes. It’s fresh, it’s not rough, it’s warming in a good way, and the amount of fruit flavour that it delivers is satisfying. The short answer: it’s pretty damn solid.

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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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