Vandenberg King Willem II Shiraz Cabernet 2019

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Vandenberg King Willem II Shiraz Cabernet 2019.

Vandenberg King Willem II Shiraz Cabernet 2019
$xx, 14.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, South Australia.

At six years of age this red wine is soft, mellow, deep-flavoured and persistent. It’s a very good drink and very good value. It tastes of blackcurrant, bay leaves, plums, leather, black olives and earth-splashed spice, and from start to finish its warm-hearted flavours feel both generous and inviting. A few extra years under this wine’s belt are a good thing; the result now is a wine that’s both robust and easy to settle in with. 92 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 a respected 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 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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