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

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 both The Winefront site (founded in 2002, and the home of Australia’s best Australian wine reviews) and Mattinson Photography.

Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer 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 national 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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