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

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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