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

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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