Angove Angels Rise Vineyard Shiraz 2021
- 92
- $50
- Drink by: 2026-2038
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Reflects its cool, high altitude (270m) home in Clarendon with a structured, complex wine just starting out on what should undoubtedly prove to be a long life. Sourced off 20-year-old vines that offer a fine meshing of blue fruits, black cherries and berries, leaf, Aussie bush and tobacco leaf. There is a strong, lean herbal influence on the palate, taut and firm, with tannins well in place. A light pepperiness, spice, chocolate and woodsmoke notes thread through the fruit with woodsmoke and oak staying with you on the finish. This is a wine that would love to see more time in bottle. It will be worth it.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
