Amicus Black Label Shiraz 2022
$80, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.
This is a deep, dark wine with blackberry, roasted plums, asphalt and licorice notes woven through with cloves and dark chocolate. It’s boldly fruited, firm through the finish, warm and – in every respect – substantial. The curl of tannin here is a particular good tether for all the richness that precedes it. This is a big wine and a very good one. 93 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.
