Neldner Road Shiraz 2021

Written By Campbell Mattinson

Neldner Road Shiraz 2021
$100, 14.5% alcohol, cork, Barossa Valley.

The volume of fruit here is excellent, as is the smoothness of the texture, as is the fine grain of the tannin. Every nuance here has been beautifully ordered, delivered and arranged. It tastes of rich plum, sweet blackberry, hay, cedarwood and choc-orange, the latter infused deliciously throughout. This wine is as substantial as it is delicious. 94 points.

Footnote: I’ve also tasted the Neldner Road Shiraz 2022. I scored it at 93 points but it’s in the same quality vicinity as above. Big fruit, integrated smoky oak, firm tannin.

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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