Provenance Geelong Shiraz 2024
$37, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Geelong.
This is the full box and dice of savoury-styled flavour. It’s built on a foundation of ripe, plush, cherry-plum fruit flavour but from there it’s wild with roasted nuts, tomato leaves, twiggy spice and mescal characters. It’s firm, spicy, juicy and svelte at once, with a mountain of leafy whole bunch characters flinging throughout. You’ve been warned. This is a live one. 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.
