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

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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