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 article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of both the highly respected The Winefront site (founded 2002) and Mattinson Photography.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. 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 prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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