Riposte The Cutlass Shiraz 2024
$29, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.
Dark cherry, cedarwood and plum flavours come infused with herbs, peppers and autumn leaf notes. It’s a lovely combination and indeed a more-ish one. Roasted nut characters appear as the wine breathes, adding to the allure. This wine routines nails the brief and this 2024 version is another hit. 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.
