Wynns Old Vines Shiraz 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Wynns Old Vines Shiraz 2024.

Wynns Old Vines Shiraz 2024
$45, 13.4% alcohol, screwcap, Coonawarra.

I’m tempted to call this wine ‘safe as houses’ but it’s better than that. It’s soft, well powered, feels plush in the mouth and is cut intricately with tannin. It tastes of plums and peppercorns, mostly, with sweet spice, woodsmoke, iodine and cedar notes making sure that there are no gaps – and that it’s expressive. It has very good length, flavour, mouthfeel and finish. It’s faultless, enjoyable and more. 94 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of Mattinson Photography.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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