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

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of both the highly respected The Winefront site (founded 2002) and Mattinson Photography.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. 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; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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