Hewitson Cask 66 Shiraz 2024
Hewitson Cask 66 Shiraz 2024
$450, 13.5% alcohol, cork, Barossa Valley.
This $450 shiraz from South Australian producer Hewitson was released alongside the Hewitson Ungrafted Barossa Valley Shiraz 2024 ($50) and the Hewitson Barossa Valley Strawberry Hill Shiraz ($150). The Ungrafted Shiraz 2024 and the Strawberry Hill Shiraz 2024 are both reviewed on The Winefront site and are both a) excellent wines and b) much better value than this Cask 66 release (particularly the Hewitson Ungrafted Shiraz 2024 release).
The Hewitson winery is at 66 Seppeltsfield Road, hence the Cask 66 Shiraz moniker.
That said, this Hewitson Cask 66 Shiraz 2024 ($450) is a fantastic wine. It’s so bold and so deep and so immaculately framed, and yet it still finds room for flamboyance. It’s a genuine wow wine when you place it on the table and pour it into the glass. It tastes of ozone and kirsch, coffee-cream and caramel, with earth, peppercorn, potpourri and sweet, ripe plums all making plays as it cascades through your mouth. The price is high, for certain, but the wine itself is the goods. 96 points.
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Campbell Mattinson is the former Chief Editor of Halliday, and is the founder of The Winefront. He’s authored six books, has won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year award twice, and has been a journalist since 1987. He is also a commercial photographer.
