Koomilya DC Block Shiraz 2021

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Koomilya DC Block Shiraz 2021

Koomilya DC Block Shiraz 2021
$120, 14% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.

This is a staggeringly good wine. It’s so powerful, so pretty, has such presence and then has such persistence. Flowers, berries, sweet spices, potpourri. I could go on. It delivers a world of scent, a world of flavour, throws ropes of tannin around the whole show and in the end, feels like it’s a carnival of its own creation. This is a wonderful McLaren Vale Shiraz. It goes straight into wow territory and then keeps going. 97 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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