Tenafeate Creek One Tree Hill Shiraz 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Tenafeate Creek One Tree Hill Shiraz 2023.

Tenafeate Creek One Tree Hill Shiraz 2023
$45, 15% alcohol, screwcap, Mount Lofty Ranges zone.

Density of flavour is one thing but structural intensity is another, and this wine boasts both. It tastes of toast, scorched plums, iodine and smoked meats, and as soon as it hits the glass it takes over the room. There’s a wide spread of grainy tannin here, and ample bold fruit, and serious impact, though there’s also a soft, pink-marshmallow top note running throughout. This is the kind of wine that gives heftiness a good name. 93 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.

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