Beklyn Shiraz 2024
$45, 15.5% alcohol, screwcap, Currency Creek, South Australia.
This is a full-throttle shiraz with blackberry jam, plum sauce, sweet spice, toast and chocolate notes charging through the palate. It’s rich, boisterous, super ripe and thick with warm fruit flavour. It’s also delicious, in the most dark-hearted of ways, though violet-like top notes do their best to add a prettiness. If you like big shiraz, you will certainly enjoy this. 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.
