Agricola Vintners Flaxman Valley Naimanya & Home Shiraz 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Agricola Vintners Flaxman Valley Shiraz 2024 on a white background.

Agricola Vintners Flaxman Valley Naimanya & Home Shiraz 2025
AU$100, 13.6% alcohol, cork, Eden Valley.

Well, look. This wine is so good that I’m almost speechless. I’m tempted to just say that it’s “bloody magnificent,” as I did in the comments on The Winefront, and call it a day. It somehow manages to be complex, forceful, light and insistent at once. It tastes of nuts, peppers, red and black berried fruit, florals, earth, smoked meats and more, but if ever there was a wine that is more than the sum of its parts, this wine is it. Boy oh boy oh boy. The wide, encompassing, Glad-Wrap feel of the tannin; the flare; the focus; the joy. This wine is epically good in the freshest of ways. 97 points – Campbell Mattinson.

Campbell Mattinson

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.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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