Cimicky Reserve Shiraz 2021
$175, 15% alcohol, DIAM cork, Barossa Valley.
This is seductive. It’s rich, sweet, soft, ballooned with fruit-and-oak flavour and neat through the finish. It tastes of roasted plums and toast, redcurrant, caramel and toffee, with a chocolate-and-cream plushness running over the top. This kind of richness will hold the wine in good stead but it’s drinking very well now. 93 points.
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.
