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

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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