Wilfred Shiraz 2022
$32, 14% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.
This is a sure-footed shiraz offering very good volume of flavour and a sound, satisfying finish. It ticks all the right boxes. It tastes of blackberries and plums, cloves and dark chocolate, essentially, though it also carries bitumen and mint characters as whispers. This is a dark, hearty wine, made and presented well. 92 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.
