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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.
chardonnay

Château Tanunda Barossa Chardonnay 2023

Big in personality – à la Barossa – with plenty of good Chardonnay vibes packed into its smart $25 price...
year old

Château Tanunda 100 Year Old Vines Shiraz 2021

From a top vintage and, boy, does it show. Old vines and a strong vintage bring a deep sense of...
everest

Château Tanunda The Everest Barossa Shiraz 2021

The Everest ’21 reaches for the heights and then some, in what was a great vintage in the Barossa Valley....
riesling

Château Tanunda Barossa Dry Riesling 2024

Super impressive for the ’24 vintage. Captures the Barossa and one of its premier white grape  varieties well, combining youthful...
The Architect Cabernet Sauvignon

Dowie Doole The Architect Blewitt Springs Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

This is a wow on a number of levels but, mostly, it screams CLASS! Attention is grabbed with those solid,...
The Architect Shiraz

Dowie Doole The Architect Blewitt Springs Shiraz 2021

Blewitt Springs, given the sub-region’s deep sandy soils, offers a distinctly different style when it comes to McLaren Vale Shiraz.. ...
Estate Merlot

Dowie Doole Estate Merlot 2022

Merlot in all of its pretty floral and spice aromatics, which is saying a lot. Lifted violet, anise, sage, plum...
Riposte Katana Chard NEW NV

Riposte Wines The Katana Chardonnay 2023

The ’23 vintage in the Adelaide Hills was cool, the coolest in 100 years. The wet and cold season played...
Riposte Stiletto PG NEW NV

Riposte Wines The Stiletto Pinot Gris 2024

A less is more kind of Pinot Gris, quite intense and deep.  It’s no shouter but it makes its presence...
Riposte Scimitar Riesling NEW NV

Riposte Wines The Scimitar Riesling 2024

Tim Knappstein and his son, Nick, return to the original Knappstein ancestral home – the Clare Valley – to be...
KynetonRidgeChard

Kyneton Ridge Chardonnay 2024

There’s a softness and warm familiarity at first – Chardonnay fully ripened and looking good – before expanding into some...
KynetonRidgePinotNoirRes

Kyneton Ridge Reserve Pinot Noir 2023

Boasts the lifted aromatic cool climate qualities of Macedon Ranges Pinot Noir with some oomph. Harmony reigns on the bouquet...
KynetonRidgeVermentino

Kyneton Ridge Vermentino 2024

Brings the Italian variety’s famous ‘bite’ – like sucking on grapefruit pith – to the glass, adding an extra layer...
PolishNV

O’Leary Walker Polish Hill River Riesling 2024

The opposite in personality to Watervale Riesling, Polish Hill is all about Riesling energy and exuberance. Organically grown, for those...
WatervaleNV

O’Leary Walker Watervale Riesling 2024

So fine, so silky, so effortless in delivery with aromatics that define what Watervale Riesling is all about. Watervale can...
TT Cray Cab Fr Trans

Terre à Terre Crayères Vineyard Cabernet Franc 2022

Usually restricted to the role of blending partner, but Cabernet Franc can be so much more. Terre à Terre takes...
TT Cray Cab Sh WEB

Terre à Terre Crayères Vineyard Cabernet Shiraz 2022

Time and time again, it is the tannin profile in fruit off the Crayères Vineyard in Wrattonbully – with soils...
TT Cray Res Cab Sh WEB

Terre à Terre Crayères Vineyard Reserve Cabernet Shiraz 2020

That “reserve” word – too often overused – is, for once, well justified here. With Cabernet, 78%, in the lead...
Petaluma Evans Vineyard

Petaluma Coonawarra Evans Vineyard Cabernet Merlot 2019

Five years bottle age has undoubtedly enhanced and smoothed the edges of Coonawarra’s premier red grapes. Cabernet Sauvignon (89%) takes...
PETALUMA CHARDONNAY PICCADILLY VALLEY

Petaluma Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay 2023

A youngster, coiled and tight. It needs time to open, to spread its vinous wings. Don’t over-chill and enjoy the...
Petaluma Hanlin Hill

Petaluma Hanlin Hill Riesling 2023

Does the Clare Valley proud year after year.  Admirable consistency again in 2023 from this vineyard high in the Clare...
Juniper TheTribute CabernetSauvignon

Juniper The Tribute Block 7 Cabernet Sauvignon 2018

Let’s hear it for the vineyard. Or, to be precise, Block 7 in the Juniper vineyard in Margaret River. Tribute...
Sparkling Pinot Noir Chardonnay

Corryton Burge Pinot Noir Chardonnay NV

Rates high on the easy drinkability scale thanks to a bright, bubbly personality. Tis the season coming up and that...
Martha Mae nv

Corryton Burge Martha Mae Tasmanian Pinot Noir Chardonnay 2019

Tasmania is now the go-to source for top sparklings. It says something that Corryton Burge which calls the Barossa Valley...

Stories

Tread Softly

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...
Derwent Estate

Southern Open Vineyards 2025

The cool rules in Southern Tasmania. As one of the most southerly areas in the world for viticulture, the super...
SITV DB webres

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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Yarra Yering 30+ years of Underhill Shiraz

Great wine, it is said, is made in the vineyard. Whoever first coined that expression clearly never met Dr Bailey...
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