Burge Family Winemakers Draycott Reserve Shiraz 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Burge Family Winemakers Draycott Reserve Shiraz 2023.

Burge Family Winemakers Draycott Reserve Shiraz 2023
AU$150, 15% alcohol, cork, Barossa Valley.

Strong flavours of blackberry, licorice, tar, earth, saltbush and coffee purr through the palate. Ripenees is clearly not an issue and nor is texture; there’s velvet to the mouthfeel here. Tannin rumbles through the finish but it does so in tandem with sweet, red-berried fruit flavour. Indeed the tannin here, for all of its assertiveness, is fine-grained and well managed. This wine is hefty and warm but it’s impeccably well composed.

94 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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