Envelope Instagram Facebook
Avatar photo

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.
MVG

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...
Read more
MVSH

Chapel Hill The MV Shiraz 2023

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 91
  • $33
  • 2024-2028
The MV – McLaren Vale – label offers an archetypal expression of grapes close to the Vale’s heart . ....
Read more
PV Shiraz LR

Pyren Vineyard Earthscape Shiraz 2022

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 92
  • $50
  • 2024-2030
A welcoming, juicy, bright and zippy young Shiraz with plenty of personality. Moves fast and easy, pleasing the palate on...
Read more
grand barossa cabernet

Château Tanunda Grand Barossa Cabernet Sauvignon 2022

Red Wine - Cabernet - Cabernet Sauvignon
  • 90
  • $25
  • 2024-2027
Barossa Cabernet, ripe, sweet-fruited and inviting. Everything spells out accessibility. Looks very much in the regional zone of black fruits,...
Read more
grand barossa shiraz

Château Tanunda Grand Barossa Shiraz 2022

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 93
  • $25
  • 2024-2030
Sourcing has clearly made a difference here, Barossa Shiraz offering a degree more elegance and structure in comparison to its...
Read more
grand barossa gsm

Château Tanunda Grand Barossa Grenache Shiraz Mourvèdre 2023

Red Wine - Grenache - Shiraz
  • 90
  • $25
  • 2024-2027
An archetypal Barossa GSM displaying all the deliciousness we have come to expect and enjoy. And that price makes it...
Read more
ebenezer

Château Tanunda Terroirs of the Barossa Ebenezer District Shiraz 2022

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 91
  • $60
  • 2024-2035
Impenetrable in deep purple hues. A little impenetrable, too, at this early stage in its life, in cedary oak. Far...
Read more
chateau grenache

Château Tanunda The Château Barossa Grenache 2023

Red Wine - Grenache
  • 90
  • $40
  • 2024-2030
Unmistakable Grenache nose of red fruits and brambly wild mountain herbs with white pepper and spice. Sourced from a single...
Read more
greenock

Château Tanunda Terroirs of the Barossa Greenock Shiraz 2022

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 95
  • $60
  • 2024-2036
Keeps to the Barossa basics – nothing too fancy, let the fruit sing – and it shines. And the fruit,...
Read more
chardonnay

Château Tanunda Barossa Chardonnay 2023

White Wine - Chardonnay
  • 91
  • $25
  • 2024-2027
Big in personality – à la Barossa – with plenty of good Chardonnay vibes packed into its smart $25 price...
Read more
year old

Château Tanunda 100 Year Old Vines Shiraz 2021

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 96
  • $180
  • 2024-2037
From a top vintage and, boy, does it show. Old vines and a strong vintage bring a deep sense of...
Read more
everest

Château Tanunda The Everest Barossa Shiraz 2021

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 96
  • $350
  • 2024-2040
The Everest ’21 reaches for the heights and then some, in what was a great vintage in the Barossa Valley....
Read more
riesling

Château Tanunda Barossa Dry Riesling 2024

White Wine - Riesling
  • 93
  • $25
  • 2024-2031
Super impressive for the ’24 vintage. Captures the Barossa and one of its premier white grape  varieties well, combining youthful...
Read more
The Architect Cabernet Sauvignon

Dowie Doole The Architect Blewitt Springs Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

Red Wine - Cabernet - Cabernet Sauvignon
  • 95
  • $85
This is a wow on a number of levels but, mostly, it screams CLASS! Attention is grabbed with those solid,...
Read more
The Architect Shiraz

Dowie Doole The Architect Blewitt Springs Shiraz 2021

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 93
  • $85
  • 2024-2031
Blewitt Springs, given the sub-region’s deep sandy soils, offers a distinctly different style when it comes to McLaren Vale Shiraz.. ...
Read more
Estate Merlot

Dowie Doole Estate Merlot 2022

Red Wine - Merlot
  • 91
  • $30
  • 2024-2028
Merlot in all of its pretty floral and spice aromatics, which is saying a lot. Lifted violet, anise, sage, plum...
Read more
Riposte Katana Chard NEW NV

Riposte Wines The Katana Chardonnay 2023

White Wine - Chardonnay
  • 90
  • $29
  • 2024-2033
The ’23 vintage in the Adelaide Hills was cool, the coolest in 100 years. The wet and cold season played...
Read more
Riposte Stiletto PG NEW NV

Riposte Wines The Stiletto Pinot Gris 2024

Other - Specialty
  • 93
  • $24
  • 2024-2030
A less is more kind of Pinot Gris, quite intense and deep.  It’s no shouter but it makes its presence...
Read more
Riposte Scimitar Riesling NEW NV

Riposte Wines The Scimitar Riesling 2024

White Wine - Riesling
  • 91
  • $24
  • 2024-2034
Tim Knappstein and his son, Nick, return to the original Knappstein ancestral home – the Clare Valley – to be...
Read more
KynetonRidgeChard

Kyneton Ridge Chardonnay 2024

White Wine - Chardonnay
  • 91
  • $42
  • 2024-2029
There’s a softness and warm familiarity at first – Chardonnay fully ripened and looking good – before expanding into some...
Read more
KynetonRidgePinotNoirRes

Kyneton Ridge Reserve Pinot Noir 2023

Red Wine - Pinot Noir
  • 94
  • $40
  • 2024-2030
Boasts the lifted aromatic cool climate qualities of Macedon Ranges Pinot Noir with some oomph. Harmony reigns on the bouquet...
Read more
KynetonRidgeVermentino

Kyneton Ridge Vermentino 2024

White Wine - Vermentino
  • 92
  • $32
  • 2024-2027
Brings the Italian variety’s famous ‘bite’ – like sucking on grapefruit pith – to the glass, adding an extra layer...
Read more
PolishNV

O’Leary Walker Polish Hill River Riesling 2024

White Wine - Riesling
  • 95
  • $35
  • 2024-2034
The opposite in personality to Watervale Riesling, Polish Hill is all about Riesling energy and exuberance. Organically grown, for those...
Read more
WatervaleNV

O’Leary Walker Watervale Riesling 2024

White Wine - Riesling
  • 95
  • $27
  • 2024-2032
So fine, so silky, so effortless in delivery with aromatics that define what Watervale Riesling is all about. Watervale can...
Read more

Stories

SITV DB webres

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...
Read More
Photographer

Clonakilla

Jeni Port
Vintage 2023 in the Canberra District was a testing time. Summer turned into autumn and still not a grape had...
Read More
MartenAscenzo Penfolds PenfoldsMediaPreview D

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...
Read More
UnderhillEvent hdavison websize

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...
Read More
IMG

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,...
Read More

Hear Me Roar – the Gin

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

Winepilot wants you!

Sign up for your one-way ticket to better drinks.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

ABOUT US

To help you drink better every time, Winepilot is your good times passport – a personal drinks guide to the greatest sips and nips from Australia and around the globe.

OUR NETWORK

Drinks Adventures 
Wine Intuition                                

Envelope Instagram Facebook

WINEPILOT WANTS YOU!

Join the Winepilot community
today for your one-way ticket to better drinks.

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
winepilot
Envelope Instagram Facebook