Cape Jaffa Epic Drop Shiraz 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Cape Jaffa Epic Drop Shiraz 2022.

Cape Jaffa Epic Drop Shiraz 2022
$40, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Mount Benson.

This is a medium-weight shiraz with raspberry, red licorice, orange blossom and peppercorn flavours rippling attractively throughout. It’s warm of heart but elegant in nature, its fruit, oak, dried flower and spice characters all contributing in an unforced, easy-to-appreciate way. There’s a lifted almost peanut-brittle-like note to the nose, which heightens the wine’s attractiveness further. 91 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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