The Lane Vineyard Shiraz 2025
$30, 14.2% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.
This is right in the groove. The fruit is ripe and generous, the spice notes are obvious but not excessive, there’s a general hover of floral notes and the finish is fluid and soft. Pepper, cocoa and florals on a bed of ripe berries, basically. What’s not to like? This is good. yes please.
91 points – 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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
