Dowie Doole Cali Road Shiraz 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Dowie Doole Cali Road Shiraz 2022.

Dowie Doole Cali Road Shiraz 2022
$80, 14.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, McLaren Vale.

The throttle is right out here but in the full-bodied, rich, mouth-filling style of McLaren Vale shiraz, this wine is very good. It tastes of blackberry, chocolate, mint, tar and sweet, velvety plum, the aftertaste then adding violet and peppercorn-like characters. The tannin is firm, the fruit is swashbuckling. If you enjoy full-bodied red wine, expect to be satisfied in full. 93 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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