"This is one hell of a wine, all told. It’s big and it’s beautiful." Campbell Mattinson comments on an intense 95-point shiraz from McLaren Vale.

“This is not a big wine, and nor does it need to be. But it is a truly beautiful wine, start to finish.” – Mattinson on the Pokolbin Vintners Pokolbin Mountain Dry Red 2023.

The 75th-anniversary Grange is a cooler-vintage wine — more 1999 than 1998 — with length and tannin to burn, and a $1000 price that hasn't moved in five years. The full review, and the score.

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After a 2026 tasting, Campbell Mattinson now ranks Penfolds Grange 1990 his favourite vintage yet — 99 points, and drinking at its absolute peak.

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