Duck Duck Bull Shiraz 2022
$27, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Wrattonbully.
This is a meaty shiraz with woodsmoke and peppermint characters running through raspberry, plum and black cherry. It feels both bright and lively – and juicy – but there’s good depth to the fruit, and enough substance to keep everyone happy. As this wine breathes a keen floral aroma starts to rise from the glass, adding a prettiness to what is already an engaging show. 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.
