Thorn-Clarke William Randell Shiraz 2021

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Thorn-Clarke William Randell Shiraz 2021.

Thorn-Clarke William Randell Shiraz 2021
$120. 14.5% alcohol, cork, Barossa Valley.

This is a slick, dense, full-bodied red wine with inky fruit flavour, toast and salted caramel notes, and a high amount of texture throughout. It seduces via its richness, and via its softness. It tastes of bitumen, plums, saltbush and blackcurrant, with vanilla notes tying it all together, and keeping it all smooth. This wine has no doubt been designed to cellar, but really, its charms are open and obvious even at this early stage of its life. 94 points.

Campbell Mattinson

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.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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