Curtis Family Vineyards Ancestor Shiraz 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Curtis Family Vineyards Ancestor Shiraz 2022.

Curtis Family Vineyards Ancestor Shiraz 2022
$180, 14.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, McLaren Vale.

Take dark berried fruit flavours and make them into a mountain. That’s the kind of richness that we have on offer here. Blackberries, violets, mints, roasted plums and chocolate flavours come infused with vanilla, woodsmoke and cedar. The effect is imposing, impressive and seductive at once. There’s a fineness to the tannin, a fine but effective etch, which gives the wine shape but also serves to highlight the richness of flavour on offer. 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 (the home of Australia’s best wine reviews) and of 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. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

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

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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