Haselgrove The Ambassador Shiraz 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Haselgrove The Ambassador Shiraz 2024.

Haselgrove The Ambassador Shiraz 2024
$100, 14.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, McLaren Vale.

This is a dramatic style of wine and it’s also dramatically good. It delivers wave after wave of rich, dark, chocolate-and-blackberry flavour, with vanilla-cream and bay leaf notes woven through. Cedarwood oak plays a supporting role only; the hero here is McLaren Vale Shiraz fruit and a mountain of it. All this flavour comes stitched with fine-grained tannin. We are in the presence of excellence here. We are in the presence of sustained richness. 96 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. 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; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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