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.

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 both The Winefront site (founded in 2002, and the home of Australia’s best Australian wine reviews) and Mattinson Photography.

Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer 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 national 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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