Dowie Doole Reserve Shiraz 2022
$150, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.
This is a hulk of a wine. It’s big in fruit flavour and big in oak, and carries big bones of tannin too. Tar, roses, sweet plums, kirsch and rust flavours run into peppercorn, malt, mint chocolate, toast and dust. Every sip of this wine feels significant. It’s balanced and harmonious, in its own way and by its own design. It’s a knockout wine. 95 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.
