Schwarz Nitschke Block Shiraz 2022
$50, 14.2% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.
This is a dense, powerful, high octane example of Barossa Shiraz. It’s thick with plum, leather, earth, sweet spice and chocolate flavour, the aftertaste then adding brandy, saltbush and more of those suede-leather notes. This wine is smooth, rich and satisfying, with just enough maturity to the fruit to give it a mellow feel. 91 points.
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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
