Campbell Mattinson 95 Points!
Campbell Mattinson 95 Points!
"The wine takes some time to come around " it throws a challenging stink to begin " but as it unfurls, it draws you thoroughly in. Dryness, tension, gristles of spice, seeds, smoke and herbs. All these savoury notes come wrapped in boysenberried fruit flavour, though as you can probably tell " this wine does not live in a fruit-driven house. It's all the things it wants to be: elegant, tremendously fine, unimpressed by the mainstream. Every time I put it in my mouth I could see long sharp lines in my mind, like a sketch. It's all angles and lines, as opposed to a big rubber stamp of ink-filled flavour. It is what it is and uncompromisingly so, but it does not force its point of view. It's a quiet but insistent syrah. It'll either be your thing, or it won't be."
The Wine Front, February 2012
Country:
Australia
Region:
VIC- Heathcote
Variety:
Wine Red - Shiraz
Size:
750mL
