Pyren Vineyard Pentagon Shiraz 2017

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Pyren Vineyard Pentagon Shiraz 2017.

Pyren Vineyard Pentagon Shiraz 2017
$80, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Pyrenees.

At eight years of age this has mellowed and is soft, but it still feels substantial. It’s at the perfect stage of its development, and while it will keeping maturing for some years yet, we have now entered its peak drinking years. It tastes of tobacco, sweet cherries, leather, ironstone, mint and chocolate, the net effect soft, fresh, complex and mouthfilling. As a mature wine, this is a lovely wine to drink. 94 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.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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