Archery Road Bullseye Shiraz 2021

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Archery Road Bullseye Shiraz 2021.

Archery Road Bullseye Shiraz 2021
$150, 14.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, Barossa Valley.

This wine is deep. It offers a rich pool of roasted plum, bitumen, coffee-cream and peppercorn flavour, and from the first sip through to the last you are fully aware that you’re in the presence of an intense Barossa shiraz. This is a big, warm-hearted wine. With air red licorice and kirsch flavours push forward, nestling straight into fine-grained, assertive tannin. For all of its power though there’s a freshness to the finish, which is impressive. It will cellar no doubt but it’s drinking well now. 93+ points.

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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