Iggy Deda 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Iggy Deda 2022

Iggy Deda 2023
$45, 13.5% alc, DIAM cork, Barossa Valley.

Blend of Roussanne and Marsanne.

A lot of thought, care and love goes into this wine and it’s obvious in the glass. This wine has personality and character by the spadeful, and is immensely satisfying as a result. It tastes of peach, spice, butterscotch, wax, preserved lemons and toast, with mint and cedar notes as seasoning. There’s a genuine crackle to the back half of the palate – it’s like walking on a pebbled drive-way, or the wine equivalent thereof – which is a rare character and a highly prized one. This is a ripping white wine, full stop. 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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