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

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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