Wirra Wirra Church Block Shiraz 2024
AU$22, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.
This is a yes. It’s everything you want in an affordable shiraz. Bold fruit, smooth texture, a general brightness but excellent depth of flavour too. Blueberries, plums, bay leaves, olives and spicy oak. This is a winner.
92 points – 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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
