Irvine Altitude Barossa Valley Shiraz 2023
$35, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.
This Barossa shiraz is balanced and neat but it also has a lovely plushness to it. It’s just the ticket if you’re looking for something to settle into, so to speak. It tastes of ripe plums, saltbush, cloves, red licorice and smoked marshmallow, and from start to finish it turns on the charm. 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.
