

94 POINT CAMPBELL MATTINSON HALLIDAY WINE COMPANION 94 POINT RAY JORDAN
Vintage: | 2021 |
Source/Region: | Grampians, Victoria |
Grape Variety: | Shiraz |
Cellaring: | Drink now or cellar for long term |
Bottle Top: | Stelvin |
Alcohol Content: | 14.50 |
Standard Drinks: | 8.60 |
Rating: | 94 |
Vibrant and perfumed, this cool-climate Shiraz from Victoria’s Grampians region delivers a compelling mix of lifted aromatics and spice-driven complexity. The bouquet is alive with red and black cherries, ripe raspberry, boysenberry, and a hint of baking spice. The palate follows through with Morello cherry, blackberries, and raspberries, framed by a spice medley of cloves, cardamom, and white pepper.
Delicate acidity and fine tannins lend structure and drive, giving this wine understated elegance and persistent length. Fermented with 100% whole berries in small open and large concrete fermenters using natural yeasts, this Shiraz was aged for 14 months in French barriques (30% new), highlighting purity and finesse.
Vintage 2021 was mild and offered extended ripening, resulting in layers of spice and a full basket of fruit flavours.
Enjoy this Shiraz with grilled lamb cutlets, slow-cooked beef with pepper sauce, lentil and eggplant moussaka, or blackened mushroom burgers to complement its spice and fruit profile.
94 Point Rated - Campbell Mattinson Halliday Wine Companion
"It's spicy and well fruited but mostly it's an exercise in putting all the various components exactly where they should be. Everything here feels exact, and exacting. Red cherried fruit, black pepper notes, integrated cedar oak and drifts of assorted florals, all of which hone to a long, peppery finish. It's mid-weight at most and it's all it needs to be. This is the kind of wine that gives elegance its good name."
94 Point Rated - Ray Jordan Wine Pilot
"Beautiful, perfumed aromas greet from the start, cherry and dark plum with a spicy raspberry nuance. The palate is medium bodied and elegantly presented with those cherries and blackberry flavours emerging with a little sprinkle of pepper and dried herbs. The oak is well-weighted with the fine chalky tannins in support."
93 Point Rated - Gary Walsh The Wine Front
"Quite the dramatic name, is Cliff Edge. Could also be the name of an Australian private eye, and I’m something of a huge fan of the Cliff Hardy novels by Peter Corris. Anyway, that aside, average age of vines is now 25 years, and it gets 30% new French oak.Black cherry, raspberry, five spice, a little cedar oak. It’s medium to full-bodied, with plenty of cherry and forest berry fruit flavour, a fine dusty/peppery feel to tannin, quite fresh, with maybe something a little more savoury in the aftertaste, like black olive. The length is good also. It’s a good Cliff Edge, and also a rock solid expression of regional Shiraz."
92 Point Rated - Erin Larkin Robert Parker Wine Advocate
"The 2021 Shiraz Cliff Edge is rocky and purple on the nose with crushed granite, blackberry, white pepper and raspberry compote. Not hugely complex, but it is hugely satisfying. This is a concentrated, cool-climate Shiraz. It's a great (super) value at around $30 AUD. 14.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap."
Trophy Winner
Best Wine Of Show Western Victorian Wine Challenge 2022
Bronze
Royal Melbourne Wine Awards 2024
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