Glen Eldon Twisted Trunk Reserve Shiraz 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Glen Eldon Twisted Trunk Reserve Shiraz 2023.

Glen Eldon Twisted Trunk Reserve Shiraz 2023
$200, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.

It’s grown on vines that were planted in 1865. Yes, 1865. It smells and tastes of resiny vanillin but from there we’re straight into a deep, rich, intense pool of dark berried flavour, all saturated and intense. This is a wine that speaks in the most certain of terms. The fruit through the back half of this wine is washed through with authoritative, grainy tannin; the finish itself is then well sustained. This is a wine of exemplary depth and power. 94 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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