JACK MATTINSON'S DELUXE DRY RED SHIRAZ CABERNET 2009
Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 04:37PM NEWSFLASH -- Well of course I couldn't help showing pre-release samples to a few folks ... here's what Jeremy Pringle thought of the wine -- Jack Mattinson's Deluxe Dry Red 2009 Review
And just quietly -- James Halliday rated the wine at 92/100 - not bad for a $17.95 wine.
JACK MATTINSON'S DELUXE DRY RED SHIRAZ CABERNET 2009
JACK MATTINSON was self-taught from books. He rose to own a corner store in the 1950s but he wanted to grow things, so he moved to the bush and carved a farm out with hand-saws. He built one house in his life; where he & wife Elma lived. There he grew masses of green vegetables, fields of corn & potatoes, ran cows for milk & meat, & swapped hessian bags of potatoes for eggs. He was a great advocate of the cos lettuce, the diesel engine, & of a daily spoonful of molasses. He made his own beer and his own bread, the latter so heavy with wholegrain you could chisel your name in it. He trapped rabbits & ate them. Everywhere he went, he whistled. And every day at lunch he drank a glass of wine and then had a kip on the couch.
It was easy to idolise him.
In his later years, he often cried when he said goodbye to you. Now that he’s gone, I’m forever talking of him & his farm, where he grew more things than I could imagine.
JACK MATTINSON’S DELUXE DRY RED ...
is a plush blend of (three-quarts) Shiraz and (one-quart) Cabernet Sauvignon. It's matured in all French oak and is grown, proudly, in the Hilltops wine region. What a pleasure it would be to sit at his table and pour Jack a glass, alongside rabbit or anything else, & wait for him to start whistling again.
— CAMPBELL MATTINSON, ONE OF JACK’S GRANDSONS —
RRP $17.95