Irvine Old Vine Shiraz 2021
$110, 14.8% alcohol, cork, Barossa Valley.
A substantial volume of flavour is delivered on a pillowy soft cushion. This really is the kind of wine you can settle in with, and into. It tastes of ripe plum, vanilla cream, cedarwood, pine and mint. The tannin here is fine but firm, the fruit is voluptuous, and everything just glides along as it travels through your mouth. This is a big Barossa shiraz served juicy and soft. 94 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.
