Jack Estate M-R Series Shiraz 2024
$15, 14.5% alcohol screwcap, South Eastern Australia.
The fruit flavours here are ripe, sweet, soft and easy-to-like. The general flavour profile is in the raspberry, redcurrant, musk and vanilla-cream sphere, though subtle herb and spice notes are evident if you look hard enough. More importantly, there are no rough edges here and this drink well. As a result, the value equation is pretty high. 89 points.
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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
