Jack Estate Shiraz 2018
$25, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Wrattonbully Coonawarra.
Open this wine and a ball of dark fruit flavour rolls towards you. It shows signs of maturity but it also still has plenty of oomph. It tastes of black cherries, roasted plums, toast, peppercorns and saltbush, with leathery notes about the edges. It all works pretty well. 89-90 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.
