Moppity Atrius Shiraz 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Campbell Mattinson's review of Moppity Atrius Shiraz 2022

Moppity Atrius Shiraz 2022
$35, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Canberra/Murrumbateman.

If you ever wanted to prove to someone that Hilltops shiraz can be a truly beautiful thing, then this wine would be the perfect vehicle. It’s a pretty damn gorgeous wine. It’s floral, it’s spicy, it’s nutty and it’s cherried, the latter in both the black and red berried forms. Mostly though this wine is just plain delicious, or as delicious as a dry red wine can be. On the finish it ties all this goodness together with fine-grained-but-assertive tannin, which is a nice touch, though the aftertaste then adds licorice characters as a kind of encore. This is fancy shiraz at a better-than-fair price. Personally, I think it’s brilliant. 94 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. 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. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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