Chalk Hill Alpha Crucis Antares Shiraz 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Chalk Hill Alpha Crucis Antares Shiraz 2024.

Chalk Hill Alpha Crucis Antares Shiraz 2024
$165, 14% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.

This is a wine of pure joy. It’s medium in weight, beautifully structured, bright fruited and exotically perfumed. It’s powerful but not thick, textured but not soupy. If you sat next to this wine at a party it would keep you entertained all night. It tastes of raspberries, plums, orange rind, sweet earth and peppers, with toasty. cedarwood, smoky oak as a gentle infusion. Even the tannin of this wine brings flavour along with it; ripe but not overdone. Everything about this wine, from all angles, is beautiful. 96 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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