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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.
Tapanappa PiccadillyValley Vineyard Chardonnay

Tapanappa Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay 2024

White Wine - Chardonnay
  • 94
  • $60
  • 2025-2034
A refined, concentrated Chardonnay from another cool year in the Adelaide Hills, one of five consecutive cool vintages in a...
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Tapanappa Tiers M Vineyard Chardonnay

Tapanappa Vineyard Tiers Vineyard 1.5m Chardonnay 2024

White Wine - Chardonnay
  • 95
  • $90
  • 2025-2037
The use of 1.5m informs the drinker that a part of the vineyard has been close-planted – a 1.5 metre...
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Tapanappa Tiers Vineyard Chardonnay

Tapanappa Tiers Vineyard Chardonnay 2024

White Wine - Chardonnay
  • 96
  • $100
  • 2025-2030
Another superb Tiers Chardonnay highlighting the beauty achieved with the grape in the Adelaide Hills. Adjectives get a real work...
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Bethany Wines First Village GSM

Bethany Wines First Village Barossa Valley GSM 2023

Other - Specialty
  • 90
  • $28
  • 2025-2028
What a charmer. Brings some real zing to the GSM style, bright fruited and lively. To a big degree it’s...
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Bethany Blue Quarry Chardonnay

Bethany Wines Blue Quarry Barrel Ferment Chardonnay 2023

White Wine - Chardonnay
  • 93
  • $40
  • 2025-2028
A barrel fermented Chardonnay in the richer, mouth-filling style and it does carry it well. Yellow peach, ripe melon, quince...
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Bethany East Ground Shiraz

Bethany Wines East Grounds Barossa Shiraz 2022

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 95
  • $55
  • 2025-2032
A single vineyard wine sourced from one of Bethany’s highest vineyards at 300 metres. It is an unabashed and proud...
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Bethany GR Shiraz

Bethany Wines G.R. Reserve Shiraz 2022

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 95
  • $125
  • 2025-2036
G.R. offers a ripe, sweet fruited Barossa Shiraz that is easy to get to know and enjoy. It is super...
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SW Auburn Chardonnay

Small Wonder Auburn Tasmanian Chardonnay 2023

White Wine - Chardonnay
  • 92
  • $52
  • 2025-2029
This is not a loud Chardonnay – Tasmania rarely, if ever, does loud – and so there is a delicacy...
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SW Auburn Pinot Noir

Small Wonder Auburn Tasmanian Pinot Noir 2023

Red Wine - Pinot Noir
  • 93
  • $52
  • 2025-2028
Plenty of varietal definition and detail to explore in this young Pinot from the Tamar Valley.  It marries the lightly...
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SW Block Pinot Noir

Small Wonder Block 3 Tasmanian Pinot Noir 2023

Red Wine - Pinot Noir
  • 95
  • $57
  • 2025-2030
A shift up in gear and complexity here in Small Wonder’s Block 3 Pinot. It’s a herbal, rich and earthy...
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PPE CHD Estate RHL NV MED TN

Port Phillip Estate Red Hill Chardonnay 2023

White Wine - Chardonnay
  • 93
  • $40
  • 2025-2030
Hard to miss those fresh, summery aromas in grapefruit, lemon, white peach and struck flint. The follow up on the...
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PPE QTR PIG NV MED TN

Port Phillip Estate Quartier Pinot Gris 2024

Other - Specialty
  • 90
  • $30
  • 2025-2028
One of the varietal stalwarts of the Mornington Peninsula, Pinot Gris can fit any price point. Here, it brings some...
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Chardonnay Caldwell Lane

Swinging Bridge Caldwell Lane Reserve Chardonnay 2022

White Wine - Chardonnay
  • 95
  • $70
  • 2025-2032
A different take on a reserve quality Chardonnay from the producer compared to its flagship Block 7 Chardonnay. Caldwell Lane...
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Chardonnay Hill Park Block

Swinging Bridge Hill Park Block 7 Reserve Chardonnay 2021

White Wine - Chardonnay
  • 95
  • $90
  • 2025-2035
A wine that takes on the reserve title and means it. In fact, it also takes on the company’s title...
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Pinot Noir Caldwell Lane

Swinging Bridge Caldwell Lane Pinot Noir 2022

Red Wine - Pinot Noir
  • 93
  • $70
  • 2025-2030
A fine-edged Pinot Noir, fragrant and delicate in a style that the Orange wine region does so well. Crams strawberry,...
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Pinot Noir Hill Park Block

Swinging Bridge Hill Park Block 4 Pinot Noir 2021

Red Wine - Pinot Noir
  • 95
  • $90
  • 2025-2033
Pinot Noir loves the Orange wine region. It may not be its flagship grape – that role is taken by...
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Fiano

Oliver’s Taranga Small Batch Fiano 2024

Other - Specialty
  • 95
  • $28
  • 2025-2030
Fiano is quickly becoming a flagship white wine for the maker such is its high excitement factor. The new release...
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tempranillo

Oliver’s Taranga Small Batch Tempranillo 2024

Red Wine - Tempranillo
  • 92
  • $35
  • 2025-2029
Visions of red fruits, blueberries and purple plums arrive with this lifted aromatic scent. It is quite a sensory experience...
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mencia

Oliver’s Taranga Small Batch Mencia 2024

Other - Specialty
  • 95
  • $35
  • 2025-2030
The Iberian connection runs strong in McLaren Vale where Mencia – “men-thee-ah” – is making a big splash in a...
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Falanghina

Oliver’s Taranga Small Batch Falanghina 2024

Other - Specialty
  • 91
  • $35
  • 2025-2028
Brings some exotic, savoury charm to the glass with its preserved lemon, peach, stone fruits, almond skin and dusty herbals....
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Vermentino

Oliver’s Taranga Small Batch Vermentino 2024

White Wine - Vermentino
  • 90
  • $28
  • 2025-2028
The approach to Vermentino is to embrace the fruit and there is fruit aplenty. Fresh-cut apples, stone fruits and citrus...
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anforefiano

Oliver’s Taranga Anfore Fiano 2023

Other - Specialty
  • 92
  • $55
  • 2025-2028
A new look for the Fiano grape which is aged in clay amphorae (anfore) and unfined and unfiltered. Cloudy golden...
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sagrantino

Oliver’s Taranga Small Batch Sagrantino 2023

Other - Specialty
  • 89
  • $55
  • 2025-2033
Some wines are made to enjoy without food – save for a nibble or two – while some were made...
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BrionisBlend

Oliver’s Taranga Small Batch Brioni’s Blend 2024

Other - Specialty
  • 92
  • $35
  • 2025-2029
The base of Brioni’s blend tends to be Touriga Nacional and Grenache with a third party which can change from...
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Stories

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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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Clonakilla

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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