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Jeni Port

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.
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Seppelt Mt Ida Shiraz 2023

A warm, inviting, medium-bodied Mt. Ida, offering a slightly different iteration to its usual boldness. It suits the vintage and...
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Seppelt St. Peters Shiraz 2023

No longer a single vineyard wine, St. Peters remains sourced from Seppelt estate fruit. The ’23 reflects its cooler, wet...
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Seppelt Drumborg Riesling 2025

This little, super cool pocket of vines in South-West Victoria is proving a godsend as our climate becomes warmer and...
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Seppelt Show Sparkling Shiraz 2012

Show Sparkling Shiraz is only produced in exceptional years, those quality vintages that deserve 10 years ageing in bottle on...
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Leo Buring Leopold Tasmania Riesling 2023

Offers an enticing counterpoint to the ’24 Leopold Riesling with ’23 being a cooler than average growing season. Involves the...
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Leo Buring Leopold Tasmania Riesling 2024

A wine that stays with you long after the first sip. Sourced from the celebrated White Hills Vineyard near Launceston,...
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Leo Buring Leonay Eden Valley Riesling 2025

The fineness of Eden Valley Riesling remains, but it comes with a pronounced complexity in its youth. It’s a super...
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Saltram No.1 Shiraz 2021

A top year and a top wine tend to go hand in hand. With Saltram No. 1, it’s all about...
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Saltram The Journal Shiraz 2023

A bit of a rarity, a wine not released every year, sourced off a 472m high Eden Valley single vineyard...
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Saltram Edward Salter Cabernet Sauvignon 2023

A beautifully captured regional statement of Cabernet Sauvignon, singularly intense and complex. Colour is dense, almost impenetrable. The perfume rises...
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Coldstream Hills Sparkling Pinot Chardonnay 2018

A beautifully executed vintage sparkling. Sports a fine bead in the glass and a wealth of spring blossom, bright citrus...
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Coldstream Hills Beenak Vineyard Pinot Noir 2024

Juicy, firm and fine. Boasts all the kind of qualities we like to see in a Yarra Valley Pinot Noir...
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Suckfizzle Margaret River Chardonnay 2024

Fun fact: 700 vines produced this wine. The vines are also located on the most southerly vineyard in Margaret River....
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Otro Vino Rosé 2025

Delivers immediate drinking pleasure. Pale tea rose hues. Beautifully lifted rose petal florals, spring blossom, cherry and raspberry fruits, pomegranate,...
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Stella Bella Margaret River Chardonnay 2024

Welcome to the taste of summer, of beachy scents and inviting aromas of yellow peaches, nectarine, apple pie pastry notes,...
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Marnong Estate Single Vineyard Chardonnay 2024

Is Sunbury warm or cooler in climate? One taste of this textural and finely delivered young Chardonnay, and the answer...

Marnong Estate Chardonnay 2024

Has immediate and approachable drinking appeal, highlighting the generous and sunny side of the Chardonnay grape. Inviting from the first...

Marnong Estate Blanc de Blancs 2022

It’s not often I get to write ‘bubbly oomph’ as a tasting descriptor, but this has it. Youthful zesty and...
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Marnong Estate Single Vineyard Fiano 2024

New to the Sunbury region and looking good, Fiano is one impressive newcomer boasting a degree of elegance, not to...
Fishbone Blue Merlot

Fishbone Blue Label Merlot 2023

The floral prettiness of the Merlot grape – the rose, the pressed flowers, the violet – lend this wine considerable...
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Fishbone Blue Label Shiraz Cabernet 2023

A real little charmer with a zippy-ness of fruit that pulses throughout the wine.  Mid-dark purple colour. Upfront, ripe berries...
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Fishbone Black Label Cabernet Sauvignon 2022

Old and young vines contribute fruit to the Black Label Cabernet which is then fermented in new and seasoned French...
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Fishbone Blue Label Sauvignon Blanc Semillon 2024

Fits a lot of varietal intensity into one wine with its striking herbaceousness and citrus, tropical fruits. Hits the right...
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Fishbone Black Label Chardonnay 2023

Plenty of Margaret River generosity on show in the ’23 vintage with some smart winemaking in play. Flows easily, warmly,...

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Vasse Felix Tom Cullity Vertical

The Vasse Felix Tom Cullity project was impressive from day 1 with aspirations to make one of Margaret River’s greatest...
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Calling All Budding Next Gen Women Winemakers

Glass ceilings are made to be smashed. In the Australian wine industry, women know a thing or two about glass...
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Southern Open Vineyards 2025

The cool rules in Southern Tasmania. As one of the most southerly areas in the world for viticulture, the super...
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Wine South Tasmania: Spring In The Vines November 1-3

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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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

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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