Koonowla The Tiller Shiraz 2022
$55, 14.7% alcohol, screwcap, Clare Valley.
This is a rich, ripe red wine with blackberry, asphalt, stressed herb, redcurrant and saltbush characters filling the mouth with abundant flavour. It pushes ripeness to the edge, and comes with some alcohol warmth as a result, but the boom of flavour here is both significant and impressive. 92 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.
