Curtis Family Vineyards Tiberius Shiraz 2021

Written By Campbell Mattinson

Curtis Family Vineyards Tiberius Shiraz 2021
$500, 14.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, McLaren Vale.

Mattinson review of Curtis Family Vineyards Tiberius Shiraz 2021.

This wine stands to attention in the glass and, as it does, it commands its place in the world of wine. The essential message of this wine is that it’s rich, velvety and immaculate. It tastes of toast, intense plums, coffee, salted caramel, redcurrant, mint jelly and coconut, and for all its might, majesty and texture, it remains fresh and indeed, juicy. This wine has been made to cellar but you could easily drink it now, and love every sip. It has that balance. It’s a wine of indulgence writ large, but it’s also more-ish. 95 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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