Welland 1846 Shiraz 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Welland 1846 Shiraz 2024.

Welland 1846 Shiraz 2024
$55, 14.5% alcohol, cork, Barossa Valley.

This sits at the riper, denser, and sweeter end of the Barossa shiraz spectrum and the truth is that it’s an excellent example of this style. It fills the mouth with warm, dark berried flavour, it’s well sustained, and the tannin framework affords the wine good shape. It tastes of blackberry, roasted plum, mocha, earth, resin and dark chocolate, with peppercorn characters helping to lift the wine’s aromas. It’s a warm, generous wine, and a completely satisfying one. 94 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been a respected wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. 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; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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