Friends of Friends Shiraz Cabernet 2018

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Friends of Friends Shiraz Cabernet 2018.

Friends of Friends Shiraz Cabernet 2018
$100, 14.5% alcohol, cork, Limestone Coast.

This is a voluptuous wine straight up but then it also has the structure to support it. The end result is a seriously good red wine, in a full-bodied style. Blackcurrant, nori sheets, milk chocolate, dried tobacco, undergrowth and pure plum flavours drive the palate, with orange peel and mint notes as highlights. There are subtle sings of bottle-age development here but it remains inky and deep. This is drinking beautifully right now but there’s certainly no hurry; it has years ahead of it. 95 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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