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

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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