Agricola Vintners Flaxman Valley Shiraz 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
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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.

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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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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