Shy Susan Shiraz 2022
$65, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Alpine Valleys.
This wine saw 50% whole bunches and 50% new oak.
There’s so much polish and class on offer here. It has a refreshment factor too, though flavour – both smooth and complex – is the main go. It’s a smoky, meaty, cherried wine with rose petal notes in the highlights, drives of ripe plum, lifts of peppermint and a general, appealing creaminess. Every inch of this wine feels immaculate. 94 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.
