Fulltime Fantasy Star Child Shiraz 2023
$26, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Langhorne Creek.
This is organically grown, low-ish in alcohol, low in oak and could even be consumed chilled. It’s a red wine that is easy to drink, easy to like and easy to feel good about, the latter courtesy of its organic status. It's alive with soft, ripe, red berried flavour, with modest spice and gum leaf nuances. It’s the perfect social easy-drinker. 90 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.
