Cox Family Wines Barossa Shiraz 2021
$35, 15% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.
You can file this wine under “crowd-pleaser”, courtesy of the overt sweetness of the fruit. This tastes of Ribena and plum jam with peppercorn and toast characters as afterthoughts. It’s simple, sweet, warm and slurp-able. It just makes it into 90 point territory. 90 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.
