Chalk Hill Alpha Crucis Southern Cross Shiraz 2024

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

Chalk Hill Alpha Crucis Southern Cross Shiraz 2024
$100, 14% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.

This is a shiraz with a deep heart of flavour and sleeves of complexing herbs. It’s powered by redcurrant, plum and fresh red cherry flavour, but it then weaves blood orange, thyme, saltbush and both rust and smoke notes throughout. It’s mouthfilling but not overwhelming; its freshness remains intact. As a result, despite the wealth of fruit flavour, it has drinkability writ large. 93 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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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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