Brokenwood Graveyard Shiraz 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Brokenwood Graveyard Shiraz 2024.

Brokenwood Graveyard Shiraz 2024
$500, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Hunter Valley.

The cellarability of this wine is about as bankable as you can get. It’s a beautiful medium-bodied wine with a fine latticework of tannin spreading through the finish, and seriously good length. It tastes of plums and musk, cream and peppercorns, mostly, though earth, mint and subtle leather notes are part of its inherent character. This wine has plenty of power but, simultaneously, it’s also a celebration of medium-weight wine. In fact it’s a celebration of beauty, and an exponent of it. 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 both The Winefront site (founded in 2002, and the home of Australia’s best Australian wine reviews) and Mattinson Photography.

Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer 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 national 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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