Haselgrove Col Cross Shiraz 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Haselgrove Col Cross Shiraz 2024.

Haselgrove Col Cross Shiraz 2024
$100, 14.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, McLare Vale.

This is a wine of brute force and significant impact. It’s also emphatically high in quality. It tastes of plums, blackberries, malt, mint and milk chocolate, with gravel and assorted (dried) Italian herb notes about the edges. This wine resembles a long deep river of flavour, cascading over rolls of smooth-skin rocks. It’s grunty and smooth and rich and – ultimately – it feels as though it continues on forever. There’s also significant flex to the tannin here; this wine has long haul written all over it. Each glass feels like a journey. It’s rich and it’s brilliant. 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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