Thorn-Clarke Shotfire Shiraz 2021
$55, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.
Roasted plum flavours flow into redcurrant, toast, chocolate and caramel, with woodsy spice notes as highlights. This is solid, silken and satisfying at once, with good depth to the fruit – there’s a genuine darkness to this wine – but with lighter, prettier, rose-like notes in the mix as well. We’re on a winner here. 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.
