Head Wines The Blonde Shiraz 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Head Wines The Blonde Shiraz 2024.

Head Wines The Blonde Shiraz 2024
AU$65, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.

This is both plush and measured. It tastes of red, blue and black berries, carries violet and associated floral notes, comes run-through with nut-like characters and then finishes with a choc-orange-hazelnut burst. The tannin here – ultra fine-grained – has an earthen, minerally aspect to it, and the length of the finish itself is very good. This wine is already drinking beautifully but you’d imagine that this will develop, especially over the medium term, very well.

93+ points – Campbell Mattinson.

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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