Anvers Yacca Cottage Fortified Shiraz 2021
$75, 18.5% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.
This is so rich and sumptuous that it’s virtually impossible to resist. It’s sweet with raspberry, pure ripe plum, liquid almonds and milk chocolate flavours, and despite the intensity of the flavour (and the experience) it still feels fresh. Wow this wine is delicious. 93 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.
