Vandenberg Estate Mt Benson Shiraz 2024
$35, 15% alcohol, screwcap, Mount Benson.
These Vandenberg wines are good. This shiraz is alive with blueberry and plum flavour, as its base, and is then lifted further by violet and sweet-smoked spice notes. It has depth but it also has energy, and the finish is then well-framed by fine-grained tannin. It’s good. In fact it’s delicious – in a substantial way. 93 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.
