Irvine Altitude Eden Valley Shiraz 2022
$35, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Eden Valley.
This Eden Valley shiraz feels like velvet in the mouth and delivers a substantial amount of flavour onto the palate. It tastes of blackberry, bitumen, redcurrant, peppercorn and mint-chocolate, and has good overall balance, along with a satisfying finish. Sweet fruit, a general warmth, polish, volume-of-flavour and softness; this wine offers plenty. 91 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.
