Paisley Texture Reserve Shiraz 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Paisley Texture Reserve Shiraz 2023.

Paisley Texture Reserve Shiraz 2023
$150, 15% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.

This was grown on three Barossa vineyards, all shiraz, with 66% coming from the Koonunga sub-region, 22% from Ebenzer and 12% Shiraz from the Paisley estate vineyard in Angaston.

This is a rich, luscious, super-ripe wine with blackberry, asphalt, salted caramel, saltbush and roasted nut characters charging throughout. It’s rich, bold and warm, the latter most evident on the finish but not at the expense of the significant flavour, which continues to sail on. The tannin here is as fine as the flavours are intense. this is a wine and a half if you like the warm, rich style. 93 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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