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

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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