David McWilliam Mistletoe Home Vineyard Shiraz 2025
AU$35, 13.2% alcohol, screwcap, Hunter Valley.
This shiraz is from the Pokolbin area of the Hunter Valley, and it’s a classic version of the style. It’s medium in weight, it’s blessed with ripe red-berry flavours, it brings clove, earth and woodsmoke characters into the fray, and in both flavour and feel it just feels as though it has that almost-indefinable extra. It’s pretty special. It’s very fairly priced.
94 points – Campbell Mattinson.
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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
