Head Wines The Brunette Shiraz 2024

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

Head Wines The Brunette Shiraz 2024
AU$75, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.

What we have here is a gorgeous Barossa Shiraz. It’s thick with flavour, svelte of texture, refined, neat and lengthy. It tastes of blackberry and licorice, olives, (salted) chocolate mud cake, smoke-dried herbs and hay, though orange peel and even dried apricot characters are apparent if you squint really hard. It’s class from start to finish; and highly seductive too.

95 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.

More about Campbell Mattinson

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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