Shy Susan Tempranillo 2023

Bottle of Shy Susan Tempranillo 2023.

Shy Susan Tempranillo 2023
$65, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Alpine Valleys.

This is the kind of wine that you make when you really know your vineyard sources. There’s a seriousness to the tannin, a depth to the fruit, an inbuilt herbal complexity, and great extension. It’s silken, meaty and complex with berried fruit, twiggy herbs, toast and pepper characters rippling throughout. There’s lots going on with this wine and yet it’s fruit-filled and welcoming. The tannin – which is not overly assertive – then takes it to the next level, courtesy of the fact that it helps pull the fruit-and-spice flavours out through the finish. This wine is not excessive or overblown; it’s medium weight, and just plain terrific. 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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