Moppity Vineyards Escalier Shiraz 2018
AU $180, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Hilltops.
There’s a freshness to the fruit here that is inviting to say the least. It’s a freshness ensconced in complex secondary characters, with leaf matter, spice, lifted floral notes, undergrowth and dried stonefruit characters mingling with boysenberry, plum, malt and fully-integrated smoked cedarwood notes. This wine is delicious, delightful and highly engaging. 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.
