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Jeni Port

Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators and judges. Based in Melbourne, Jeni was the longest-serving wine writer on The Age newspaper and continues to write for most Australian wine magazines including Winestate, Wine Selector, Halliday Wine Companion magazine, Gourmet Traveller WINE, Winning and Il Tridente. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 was named Legend of the Vine.
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Howard Park Jeté Premier Brut NV

Other - Specialty
  • 93
  • $44
  • 2024-2026
Hints at the luxurious with flavours that run deep. Lively citrus, grapefruit and lemon curd aromas with acacia, baked apple...
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Howard Park Jeté Grand Vintage 2019

Other - Specialty
  • 94
  • $58
  • 2024-2026
Complex? You bet. Take a deep breath and enjoy that lovely lifted scent of honeysuckle, jasmine, white flowers, baked spiced...
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Eisenstone McDonald Vineyard Marananga Shiraz 2022

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 96
  • $125
  • 2024-2024
Such a lovely vibrancy and immediacy to the fruit and the intensity is off the charts. Welcome to Marananga! Colour...
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Eisenstone Barossa Valley Koonunga Shiraz 2022

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 90
  • $90
  • 2024-2032
No apologies here. Launches straight into a full-on Barossa Shiraz: rich, ripe, fully textured, big and bold. By woody dark...
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Eisenstone Marananga Shiraz 2022

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 95
  • $90
  • 2024-2037
Marananga offers one of the most individual and expressive styles of Barossa Shiraz. The sub-region reigns supreme here in all...
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Eisenstone Moppa Shiraz 2022

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 91
  • $90
  • 2024-2032
Hails from the Northern Barossa Valley and shows its stamp with a strong Aussie bush vibe in acacia, gum leaf...
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Eisenstone Greenock Shiraz 2022

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 92
  • $90
  • 2024-2032
Eisenstone is derived from the German word, eisen, for iron, and is a tribute to both the soils of the...
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Eisenstone Richardson Vyd. Moppa Shiraz 2022

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 94
  • $125
  • 2024-2040
Boasts an effortless, self-assurance, almost unassuming, as it works its way across the palate. Generous in flavour in Aussie bush,...
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Eisenstone Mattcheoss Vyd. Greenock Shiraz 2022

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 95
  • $125
  • 2024-2044
Offers concentration-plus, but it is not to the detriment of immediate pleasure and accessibility. Tight as a drum. Scents in...
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Eisenstone Hoffmann DV Vineyard Ebenezer Shiraz 2022

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 95
  • $125
  • 2024-2040
Makes a big statement not only about the quality of Shiraz off 70+ year-old vines sourced from the Hoffmann Dimchurch...
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Eisenstone Ebenezer Shiraz 2022

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 96
  • $90
  • 2024-2038
Elegance, precision and complexity are all hallmarks of the ’22 Ebenezer. It’s a ripper. Shows its class in fragrant cassis,...
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Eisenstone Becker Vineyard Koonunga Shiraz 2022

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 93
  • $125
  • 2024-2036
An individual vineyard expression of Koonunga Shiraz that arrives gently, almost understated. The richness and power of Barossa Shiraz has...
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Eisenstone d’Or Shiraz 2021

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 93
  • $190
  • 2024-2046
A blend of the best parcels of Barossa Shiraz from three top sub-regions – Ebenezer, Greenock and Marananga – and...
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Riposte The Sabre Pinot Noir 2023

Red Wine - Pinot Noir
  • 92
  • $38.99
  • 2024-2032
Adelaide Hills Pinot is in its element, glistening in red-red hues and carrying a lively perfume of red cherry, cranberry,...
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Riposte The Dagger Pinot Noir 2024

Red Wine - Pinot Noir
  • 90
  • $24
  • 2024-2030
The Dagger Pinot offers a more accessible, easy going counterpoint to its elegant Pinot sibling, The Sabre. Everything is turned...
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Leeuwin Estate Prelude Margaret River Chardonnay 2023

White Wine - Chardonnay
  • 93
  • $44
  • 2024-2030
The pedigree of Margaret River Chardonnay shows through in the quality of fruit.  It moves clean and fast, almost in...
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Leeuwin Estate Art Series Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

Red Wine - Cabernet - Cabernet Sauvignon
  • 95
  • $102
  • 2024-2036
One sip and you’re hooked, such is the deceptive elegance of the wine. Deceptive? This is actually a wine showing...
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Briar Ridge Hunter Valley Albariño 2024

Albariño - White Wine
  • 93
  • $40
  • 2024-2030
Albariño and the Hunter Valley were made for each other. Both are capable of undermining a drinker’s perceptions and expectations....
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Briar Ridge Wrattonbully Viognier 2024

White Wine - Viognier
  • 91
  • $40
  • 2024-2030
A Viognier that side steps the grape’s richer, oily side, choosing to focus on a style that is more measured...
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Squitchy Lane Fume

Squitchy Lane Fumé Blanc 2021

Other - Specialty
  • 93
  • $33
  • 2024-2027
Way more to think about here than your average Sauvignon Blanc or Fume Blanc and, yes, I reckon the fabulous...
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Squitchy Lane The Key

Squitchy Lane The Key Chardonnay 2021

White Wine - Chardonnay
  • 95
  • $55
  • 2024-2031
There’s something special about the 2021 vintage in the Yarra Valley. The Key Chardonnay takes it to the next level...
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Leeuwin Estate Siblings Sauvignon Blanc 2024

White Wine - Sauvignon Blanc
  • 91
  • $25
  • 2024-2029
Snow pea, herbals, cut grass, apple and grapefruit – the Sauvignon Blanc game is strong here. Archetypal savvy scents rise...
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Leeuwin Estate Brut 2022

Other - Specialty
  • 92
  • $49
  • 2024-2027
Pale-mid straw with a detailed bouquet in yellow apple, citrus, honeysuckle, white flowers and biscuit. Margaret River is home to...
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Chapel Hill The MV Bush Grenache 2023

Red Wine - Grenache
  • 93
  • $33
  • 2024-2028
What a colour! That gorgeous shimmering red immediately catches the eye and the imagination. It’s followed by a real depth...
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Wine South Tasmania: Spring In The Vines November 1-3

Jeni Port
Descriptors such as “crunchy,” “purity” and “intensity” fall easily from the mouths of southern Tasmanian wine producers. It’s quite a...
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Jeni Port
Vintage 2023 in the Canberra District was a testing time. Summer turned into autumn and still not a grape had...
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The Penfolds Collection 2023 Release – 20.07.23

Jeni Port
The theme for this year’s Penfolds Collection 2023 release is the ongoing search for diversity of style. Hence, the Australians...
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Yarra Yering 30+ years of Underhill Shiraz

Jeni Port
Great wine, it is said, is made in the vineyard. Whoever first coined that expression clearly never met Dr Bailey...
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Henschke: Celebrating 60 Years of Hill of Grace & 2018 Single Vineyard Releases

Jeni Port
On February 28, an arousing, heady mix of scents, flavours, emotions, words – lots of them – and, above all,...
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Hear Me Roar – the Gin

Jeni Port
‘I am woman, hear me roarIn numbers too big to ignore’ . . . The words, from the 1972 Helen...
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