Iggy Phoenix Syrah 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Iggy Phoenix Syrah 2022.

Iggy Phoenix Syrah 2022
$100, 14.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, Eden Valley.

This is a superb red wine from the Eden Valley. It’s rich, structured, presents a wild array of flavours and, to its core, is essentially delicious. It tastes of blackcurrant and plum, violets and sweet spices, blueberries, roasted meats and mint. There’s a slip of smoky, cedar-like flavour and a rolling thunder of (integrated) tannin. This is a dramatic red wine, both youthful and intense. You could drink this now but really, it’s been set for the long haul. 95 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.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. 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, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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