Blue Pyrenees Estate Richardson Reserve Shiraz 2019

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Blue Pyrenees Estate Richardson Reserve Shiraz 2019.

Blue Pyrenees Estate Richardson Reserve Shiraz 2019
AU$120, 15% alcohol, DIAM cork, Pyrenees.

This is luscious, rich and warm. It tastes of vanilla cream, redcurrant, mint and washes of boysenberry, apple, fragrant herbs and peppercorn. Its oak-driven creaminess is more evident on the nose than it is on the palate, though the mouthfeel here is also soft and smooth. It then finishes with a warm spread of fine-grained tannin. You have to enjoy the influence of vanillin oak flavour but with that caveat, there’s a whole lot to appreciate here.

93 points – Campbell Mattinson.

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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