Enigma McLaren Vale Shiraz 2024
AU$60, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.
This is a super-charged McLaren Vale shiraz. It’s bold with flavour, firm through the finish, well extended and just generally rich. It tastes of blackberry jam and saltbush, asphalt and rust, with dried herb and licorice notes coming forward as it breathes. There’s a warmth to the palate here but plenty of flavour to go with it. 92 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.
