St Hallett Faith Shiraz 2024
$24, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.
This is bang on for flavour and bang on for texture. In short, it delivers. It tastes of plum and blackberry, toast and earth, with rusty tannin running through the finish. It’s sweet, ripe and well weighted. No hesitation. 91 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.
