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

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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