Pirramimma Border Clan Shiraz 2023
$70, 14.8% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.
Dense flavours of blackberry jam, fresh ripe plum, peppercorn and mint roll into cedarwood, toast and cream. The balance here is spot on and so too is the overall delivery of (substantial) flavour. This sits on the outer edges of ripeness but everything it does, it does well. 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.
