Black & Ginger Lily’s Block Shiraz 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Black & Ginger Lily’s Block Shiraz 2024.

Black & Ginger Lily’s Block Shiraz 2024
$65, $13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Grampians.

Gorgeous Grampians Shiraz. It’s svelte and substantial but it’s also bright and peppery. The plum and red cherry flavours here are perfectly – but not over – ripened, and what’s particularly impressive is the way sweet spice, herb and nut characters are stitched directly into those fruit flavours, in the process make the wine feel/taste both complex and delicious at once. Firm tannin completes an imposing but more-ish package. This is top-tier shiraz. 95 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 an independent 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, who is 100% independent, 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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