Magarey Lane Glenroy Shiraz 2015

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Magarey Lane Glenroy Shiraz 2015.

Magarey Lane Glenroy Shiraz 2015
$115, 14.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, Coonawarra.

This is a mature Coonawarra shiraz with leather, redcurrant, spearmint and chocolate flavours combining now with secondary, undergrowth-like notes. Indeed there’s an element of smoked tobacco here, which is a nice touch. It’s medium in weight and mellow, as you would expect of a wine of its age, the flavours pushing on appreciably through the finish. The way the tannin splays out across the back half of the wine is another positive. This is a very good wine. 93 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. 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. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

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