Jack West Single Origin Shiraz 2022
$25, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.
This is a satisfying red wine. It pretty much tastes exactly as you’d want and hope it to taste. Dark chocolate, plum, toast, saltbush and sweet spices flavours roll attractively through the palate and then pulse, warmly, out through the finish. Job done, thank you very much. Everything is in good order here. 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.
