McWilliam’s Wines Single Vineyard Shiraz 2023
$40, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Canberra District.
This is a medium-weight shiraz with both good fruit flavour and enough complexity to keep you interested. It’s floral, spicy, smoky and a touch peppery, but its cherry-plum flavours are front and centre and indeed, are the main appeal. There’s nothing heavy about this shiraz; it’s modern, bright and well polished. 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.
