Curtis Family Vineyards Gladiator Shiraz 2021

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Curtis Family Vineyards Gladiator Shiraz 2021.

Curtis Family Vineyards Gladiator Shiraz 2021
$228, 14.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, McLaren Vale.

The grapes for this wine were hand picked from shiraz vines that have been growing in the McLaren Vale wine regions for over 80 years. There’s plenty of blood and there’s plenty of thunder, but this wine also has a sense of craft to it. It feels hand stitched. It tastes of ripe plums, peppermint, choc-cream and sweet spices, the latter toasty and tending towards red earth notes. But it all presents as one melted whole; luxurious, plentiful and shaped to perfection. There’s such harmony here that you could indeed drink this right now. 94 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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