Monty’s Leap River Hawk Shiraz 2022
$40, 13.2% alcohol, screwcap, Great Southern.
This is a peppery shiraz with a good deal of fruit substance. It tastes of ripe plums, black cherries, mint, licorice and black pepper, and from start to finish it feels both flavoursome and assured. This is a very good wine, and it has the structure to age well too. 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.
