Brand & Sons Night Owls Shiraz Malbec 2023
AU$30, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Coonawarra.
This red wine needs food to shine. It’s fresh with red berry and mint flavours, carries twiggy spice and tobacco leaf characters, and feels both high in acidity and in tannin. The fruit flavours are vivid and – even with three years under their belt – super fresh and expressive. All this will pull together nicely at the dinner table.
89 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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
