Curtis Family Vineyards Small Batch Shiraz 2021
$80, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.
This is a solid, substantial shiraz with blackberry, bitumen, salted caramel and milk-coffee flavours pushing persuasively throughout. It’s a mouthful of wine but it’s also soft, well-mannered and approachable. One sip and you find yourself relaxing into its soft, comfortable arms. Enjoyment factor is high here. 93 points.
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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
