Reed Wines Knife Edge Shiraz 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson

2023 Reed Wines Knife Edge Shiraz
$33, Grampians, Victoria.

This is shiraz from the Grampians, as it always is, though it’s now from the vineyard next door, which is grown organically. This release is less about pepper and more about stones; its tannin profile is a roll of pebbles, scattered with red roses, splashed with blue and black cherries, sprigged with mint. This is a wine for enthusiasts. It builds from the tannin up, in a way that more commercial releases from this region wouldn’t dare. It’s reductive, it’s earthen and it’s raked with dryness, but with every step the fruit and the flowers come with it. Brutal honesty. This wine has it.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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