Wind River Shiraz 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Wind River Shiraz 2022.

Wind River Shiraz 2022
$24, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.

This red wine has been beautifully grown and made. It’s medium-bodied in the best of ways, it’s ripe but not overdone, it shows elements of complexity but it’s not taxing in any way. The end result is a wine that’s good for a glass, and for another one; it’s not a one glass or one sip pony. It tastes of red- and black-berried fruits and woodsy spices; it feels svelte in the mouth; and every mouthful feels satisfying. Yes please. 92 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. 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, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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