Schild Estate Old Vine Shiraz 2021
$50, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.
Take straps of black licorice and wrap them around pillows of blackberry, saltbush, bitumen and ripe plum flavour. That’s what this wine tastes like: bold, black, forthright and full-bodied. There’s a pull of tannin through the finish and ample flavour running throughout. Satisfying, it certainly is. 92 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.
