Longview Hens Teeth Shiraz 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Longview Hens Teeth Shiraz 2023.

Longview Hens Teeth Shiraz 2023
$40, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.

There are fine-grained wines and there are spice-driven wines, and this is both. There are also delicately poised wines that get the balance precisely right, and this is one of those wines too. This wine tastes of black pepper and black cherry, anise, mint, florals and smoked meat, though the latter characters are subtle. There are some leaf matter and rosewater notes in the mix too, as a distinct positive. This isn’t a heavy or especially deep wine but it’s charming, complex, expertly crafted and beautiful to drink. 94 points.

 
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.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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