Tapanappa Whalebone Vineyard Cabernet Shiraz 2019

Written By Campbell Mattinson
review of tapanappa whalebone cabernet shiraz 2019

Tapanappa Whalebone Vineyard Cabernet Shiraz 2019
$60, 14% alcohol, cork, Wrattonbully.

This is a firm, minty red wine with tobacco and graphite notes running through the power of black, curranty fruit flavour. There are plum notes here too, plush, cushioning and confident. This wine has cellarworthiness written all over it. It’s balanced, it has a boldness, it’s threaded with tobacco/herb notes and it just, all around, seems to know what it’s doing. 95 points.

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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