Di Fabio Bush Vine Reserve Shiraz 2018

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of di fabio bush vine reserve shiraz

Di Fabio Bush Vine Reserve Shiraz 2018
$80, 14.8% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale

I tasted this wine alongside its 2016 equivalent (both $80) and of the two, this is the fuller and richer wine. Indeed it’s a better wine all around. It’s a full-bodied shiraz with blackberry, sweet plum, milk chocolate and various dried herbs characters washing confidently through the palate. It shows some leathery/dusty development – it’s nearly seven years old, after all – but the fruit is still robust and in control. The other distinguishing feature about this wine is its tannin; it’s well balanced in general but there’s quite bit of pucker to this wine, which help lend it an air of seriousness. This wine will drink well for at least the next handful of years. 93 points.

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.

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