Barons of Barossa 10 Year Old Tawny NV
Barossa Cellar
$35, 19% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.
This is well flavoured, clean as a whistle, balanced, persistent and just plain lovely. It’s worth every cent of its asking price. It tastes of raisins, orange peel, dried fruits in general, modest rancio characters and old wood. You could barely ask for more. 92 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.
