Curtis Family Vineyards Ancestor Shiraz 2021
$180, 14.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, McLaren Vale.
This is the full box and dice. One sip and you’re convinced. It’s a heady, saturated wine with sweet plum flavours flooding the palate, along with mint, and chocolate, and mocha, and assorted toasty, woodsy, roasted spices. If there’s any such thing as a svelte, smooth explosion, this is it in a glass. 95 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.
