Irvine Altitude Barossa Valley Shiraz 2022
$35, 14.6% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.
This Barossa shiraz is super smooth. It tastes of plums, red licorice, blackberry and peppercorns, and all these flavours sail through the mouth in the most satisfying of ways. This is a red wine that delivers big flavour with a minimum of fuss. It’s creamy smooth already; it doesn’t need to be cellared. 93 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.
