Curtis Heritage Shiraz 2021
$45, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.
This is a warm, heady style of shiraz with port, blackberry nip, red licorice and toasty vanilla flavours bursting throughout. It’s a simple offering but the concentration of flavour is well above the ordinary and it will satisfy many folks on those substantial grounds. 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.
