Longview Yakka Shiraz 2023
$32, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.
This is a successful version of the “cool climate” or syrah style of shiraz. It’s peppery, mulchy, bunchy and herbal, but its mainstay flavour remains sweet, soft, boysenberry-and-plum fruit. Indeed within a peppery context it’s 100% delicious. 91 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.
