De Bortoli The Estate Vineyard Shiraz 2025
$30, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Yarra Valley.
This is a frisky, medium-weight shiraz offering red and black cherry flavours infused with peppercorn, dried herbs and red licorice. It’s svelte-textured, refreshing, complex without being in-your-face about it and both well polished and well sustained. The tannin here has a dry, almost pebbly aspect to it as well – another positive. 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.
