Thorn-Clarke Single Vineyard Shiraz 2023
$45, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.
This wine is rich and satisfying, make no mistake, but its real charm is in its cuddly softness, and in the extra pulse of warm flavour through the finish. It tastes of roasted plums, fresh black cherries, saltbush, rust and vanilla cream, with bay leaf and clove notes for afters. It hits the spot and then some. 93 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.
