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

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.

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