Tierra Del Puerco Field Marshall The Shiraz 2022
$30, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.
This is a delight to drink. It’s floral, it’s fruity, it’s easy to like and yet it has good, dark, berry-driven depth. Peppercorn and plum flavours do most of the talking but there’s a whisper of woodsmoke and brighter notes of raspberry and potpourri too. It’s a very good wine, and right on the money. 93/100.
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.
