Red Knot Shiraz 2023

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

Red Knot Shiraz 2023
AU$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.

88 points – Campbell Mattinson.

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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