Monty’s Leap River Hawk Shiraz 2023
$40, 12.8% alcohol, screwcap, Great Southern.
This is a complex red with earth, undergrowth, smoked meat and black pepper characters flowing through black and red cherry flavours. There’s a gentle creaminess to the texture and a good sense of both composure and harmony. It’s light- to medium-weight and appreciably dry, with a gentle meaty/gamey note lingering through the aftertaste. 90 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.
