Stonehaven Limited Vineyard Release Shiraz 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Stonehaven Limited Vineyard Release Shiraz 2022.

Stonehaven Limited Vineyard Release Shiraz 2022
$45, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Wrattonbully.

This is a deeply satisfying red wine. It’s plush, tight, juicy and complex at once, though mainly it’s just a sure-footed red wine that’s excellent to drink. In fact – if you don’t mind me using this word – it’s a smooth red, with velvety fruit and oak combining to generous and enjoyable effect. In flavour terms this wine tastes of plums, peppercorns, liquid toast, mint and licorice, with a flash of dark chocolate in play too. It’s harmonious and it’s good. 93 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.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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