Teusner Master Mixer Shiraz 2021
$55, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.
Deep fruit flavour is rarely served so fresh. This wine tastes of boysenberry, redcurrant, ripe plums and sweet spices, with echoes of smoked cedarwood hovering throughout. But it’s that combination of substance and vitality that really seduces, matched as it is to fine-grained tannin and a clean, well-sustained finish. 94 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.
