Moppity Vineyards Escalier Shiraz 2017

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Moppity Vineyards Escalier Shiraz 2017.

Moppity Vineyards Escalier Shiraz 2017
AU $180, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Hilltops.

This is a beautiful bottle of mature, mellow, complex shiraz. It’s a wine of spread and breadth rather than of out-and-and depth, and this in itself is one of its key strengths. It tastes of plums, earth, roasted stone fruits, pan juices and woodsmoke, with a beautiful element of leaf matter combined with rose petals. It’s pretty, autumnal, full of fruit and full of character. It’s at its drinking peak right now. 94 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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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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