Agricola Vintners Ebenezer 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Agricola-Vintners-Ebenezer-Shiraz-2024.

Agricola Vintners Ebenezer 2024
$87, 14.4%, cork, Barossa Valley.

All the reviews of the Agricola Vintners wines from 2024 are published over at The Winefront, which is your best source for views of these wines. Having just added Agricola Vintners to the Mattinson 10-Star Winery classification though – and with a bottle of the 2024 Ebenezer open in front of me – a few quick thoughts on this wine.

I love how different this wine is. I love its fine-grained tannin, which seems to stretch longer than the 90-mile beach, and which pulls such juicy, mouthwatering acidity along with it. I love the peppery, nutty, spicy, curry-leaf characters here; and the freshness of the fruit, and the way both red berries and darker berry flavours are allowed free voice. If this wine was a band, there’d be no rifts; every member of the band would feel heard. I am much enamoured of this wine. I don’t just love its bits. I love it all.

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Agricola Vintners “Helen” 2024 – reviewed on the subscriber-only Winefront site – is also a totally exceptional wine.

Campbell Mattinson

This post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. 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 national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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