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

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.

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