Agricola Vintners Flaxman Valley Shiraz 2024

15 Aug

Agricola Vintners Flaxman Valley Shiraz 2024
$87, 13.3% alcohol, cork, Eden Valley.

Flavour is in fashion here and yet freshness, and the laciness of its tannin, is this wine’s ultimate calling card. This wine has both quality and drink-me written all over it. It’s both red berried and blue berried, bell-peppery, flashed with herbs, earthen, smoky and spicy, and yet for all this nothing feels overt; everything feels harmonious, neat and welcoming. The real icing though is the finish, and the inlay of tannin, both of which fan elaborately out, ushering spice, red dirt, mineral, darker berry and woodsmoke characters. This wine is something, and then something more. 96 points.

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Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

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