Monty’s Leap River Hawk Shiraz 2024
$40, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Great Southern.
This wine combines fruit ripeness, cleansing acidity and a general savouriness to good effect. It tastes of fresh boysenberry and black cherry, undergrowth and leaf matter, with clove and black pepper characters riding over the top. It’s medium in weight and fresh-feeling, with a fine mesh of tannin pulling nicely through the finish. 90 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.
