Haselgrove Catkin Shiraz 2023
$40, 14.7% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.
This is a bold McLaren Vale shiraz, thick with flavour. It lays ripe plum, mint, cedarwood and vanilla flavours down in a smooth but authoritative manner, and continues the show from the first attack of the palate and then all the way through to the finish. There’s very good drinking to be had here; this wine is bold and cohesive at once. 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.
