McWilliam’s Wines 660 Reserve Shiraz 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of McWilliam’s Wines 660 Reserve Shiraz 2024.

McWilliam’s Wines 660 Reserve Shiraz 2024
$25, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Canberra District.

This is a juicy, elegant, engaging red wine with ripe, red cherried flavours as the main driver. Pepper, musk and roasted spice notes are minor players – just enough to put a tick beside the word ‘savoury’ – but from start to finish this is a fruit-driven wine, with red licorice flavours emerging as the wine breathes. There are floral highlights here and a soft, velvety aspect to the texture too. In short, there’s good drinking to be had here. 91 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. 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 prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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