Adelina Estate Shiraz Mataro 2024

Adelina Estate Shiraz Mataro 2024

70% Shiraz 30% Mataro from 3 different blocks on the property. 11 year old and 109 year old Shiraz with 12 year old Mataro plantings at 460m elevation. Hand picked, destemmed, and mildly crushed, then fermented separately in concrete with maceration time between 16 and 31 days. Pressed to stainless for malo and racked to oak (25% new - 700L) for 16 months

Saltbush, iodine and green olive characters run through plum, earth, leather and orange rind. This is a medium weight wine with integrated-but-assertive tannin, a sheeted impression to the (long) finish, character aplenty and the fruit to match. It’s a wine of momentum but then too it’s a wine of strings and muscle. Truth be told, it’s a fantastic wine, and startling value.
94 Points. Campbell Mattinson, Wine Front.

A generous perfume and similarly so to taste. Lush, ripe red cherry, raspberry, sweet spice, light milk chocolate notes, a touch of aniseed, faint game meat and some truffle notes. It's easy on the palate in its slick of texture and trill of fine, stony tannin to finish. A little minty, alpine herb in there, too. Very approachable and flavoursome.
93 points. Mike Bennie, Wine Companion.

As good a union of these regular bedfellows as you could hope to see. Dark berries, cocoa, quince paste, a dried floral arrangement in a coal scuttle. A lithe and linear frame, depth without density, a wine with a beautifully even flow and glide. Crushed chalk tannins, sinewy and deft. 96 Points - Nick Ryan, The Australian