Jack Estate Mythology Shiraz 2012
$55, 14% alcohol, cork, Coonawarra.
This wine is in excellent condition for a wine of its age. It’s fully mature with flavours of leather, red cherry, soy sauce, mint and orange peel, but it’s the way these flavours interact with the firm-ish tannin that really impresses. This wine is now mostly about secondary rather than primary fruit flavours, as you’d expect, but it’s still drinking very well. 91 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.
