Tenafeate Creek Purple Haze Shiraz 2025
$38, 15% alcohol, screwcap, Mount Lofty Ranges.
Basket pressed, unoaked, no fining, no filtration, no preservatives added.
Hedonistic in the best of ways. Full-throttle sweet, ripe fruit, blackcurrant and redcurrant and violets and chocolate, with a soft, syrupy aspect to the texture and an impression of generosity from start to finish. It’s shiraz in come-hither mode, and it’s ultra enjoyable. 92 points.
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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
