Moppity Atrius Shiraz Grenache Mourvedre 2022
$35, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Canberra/Murrumbateman.
This wine really is ridiculously enjoyable. Stump up and buy yourself some, because it’s a ripper. It’s wild with both aroma and flavour; it’s both savoury and sweet-fruited at once; it carries inflections of roasted nuts; and it finishes with a confident flourish. This is a modern, mid-weight, fine-tuned pearler. 95 points.
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.
