The Lane Vineyard Shiraz 2023
$30, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.
If you enjoy spicy/peppery shiraz then you’re onto a winner here. This is right in the zone. Red and black cherry flavours combine with plum, black pepper, chicory and sweet spice notes to handsome effect. This is a dry, medium-weight red wine with plenty of character and interest. Go forth! 92 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.
