Peppercorn by RedCote Shiraz 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Peppercorn by RedCote Shiraz 2022.

Peppercorn by RedCote Shiraz 2022
AU$88, 14.8% alcohol, screwcap, Great Western, Victoria

This wine spent 48 months (four years) in oak.

This is a substantial red wine, thick with flavour, tannin and velvet. It tastes of plums, cream, mint, pepper and twiggy spice notes, with subtle suede-leather characters helping to keep everything running smoothly. Oak makes a clear impression on both the flavour and the texture, and there’s a wide spread of dry, grippy tannin in play too. It’s heftier and oakier than is customary for Great Western shiraz, but it has plenty of merit.

93 points – Campbell Mattinson.

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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