Shy Susan Gewurztraminer 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Shy Susan Gewurztraminer 2024.

Shy Susan Gewurztraminer 2024
$40, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Alpine Valleys.

This is an exceptional Gewurztraminer. Indeed it’s an exceptional white wine full stop. It was grown on the oldest vineyard in the Alpine Valleys region – a vineyard that was in desperate need of restoration when winemakers Jo Marsh and Glenn James took it over, and which now owes its life to their care – and while there’s precious little of this wine to go around (the vineyard only grew enough grapes to produce 22 dozen bottles in 2024), the quality here is right up there.

This wine is textural, bright with rosewater and lychee, slipped with smoky comlexities and awash with cooked apple, citrus and tonic flavours. It’s both the full box and dice and a wine of exquisite control. There’s a juiciness to this and yet it’s textural and slatey. This is a wonderful white wine in anyone’s language. It’s pure, engaging, charismatic and more. This wine is both great in the glass and a great example of vineyard custodianship. 95 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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