Torzi Matthews Schist Rock Shiraz 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson

Torzi Matthews Schist Rock Shiraz 2023
$25, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Eden Valley.

Torzi’s Schist Rock Shiraz has been a favourite for a long time and the value on offer is still right up there. This 2023 release is another goodun’. It’s spicy, floral, dark fruited and accessible, but carries just enough dry tannin through the finish to give it some shape. Mint, meat, floral and jellied dark berried fruit flavours flood through the mouth, followed by whispers of nuts and leaves. The combination of ripe, juicy fruit and meaty/spicy side notes is spot on here. 92 points and worth every cent.

Campbell Mattinson

This post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. 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 national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

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