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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.
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.. ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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TT Cray Cab Fr Trans

Terre à Terre Crayères Vineyard Cabernet Franc 2022

Red Wine - Cabernet - Cabernet Franc
  • 95
  • $35
  • 2024-2031
Usually restricted to the role of blending partner, but Cabernet Franc can be so much more. Terre à Terre takes...
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TT Cray Cab Sh WEB

Terre à Terre Crayères Vineyard Cabernet Shiraz 2022

Red Wine - Cabernet - Shiraz
  • 95
  • $59
  • 2024-2036
Time and time again, it is the tannin profile in fruit off the Crayères Vineyard in Wrattonbully – with soils...
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TT Cray Res Cab Sh WEB

Terre à Terre Crayères Vineyard Reserve Cabernet Shiraz 2020

Red Wine - Cabernet - Shiraz
  • 96
  • $90
  • 2024-2040
That “reserve” word – too often overused – is, for once, well justified here. With Cabernet, 78%, in the lead...
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Petaluma Evans Vineyard

Petaluma Coonawarra Evans Vineyard Cabernet Merlot 2019

Red Wine - Cabernet - Merlot
  • 91
  • $76.99
  • 2024-2028
Five years bottle age has undoubtedly enhanced and smoothed the edges of Coonawarra’s premier red grapes. Cabernet Sauvignon (89%) takes...
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PETALUMA CHARDONNAY PICCADILLY VALLEY

Petaluma Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay 2023

White Wine - Chardonnay
  • 93
  • $59.99
  • 2024-2030
A youngster, coiled and tight. It needs time to open, to spread its vinous wings. Don’t over-chill and enjoy the...
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Petaluma Hanlin Hill

Petaluma Hanlin Hill Riesling 2023

White Wine - Riesling
  • 95
  • $35.99
  • 2024-2030
Does the Clare Valley proud year after year.  Admirable consistency again in 2023 from this vineyard high in the Clare...
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Juniper TheTribute CabernetSauvignon

Juniper The Tribute Block 7 Cabernet Sauvignon 2018

Red Wine - Cabernet - Cabernet Sauvignon
  • 96
  • $150
  • 2024-2034
Let’s hear it for the vineyard. Or, to be precise, Block 7 in the Juniper vineyard in Margaret River. Tribute...
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Sparkling Pinot Noir Chardonnay

Corryton Burge Pinot Noir Chardonnay NV

Red Wine - White Wine - Chardonnay - Pinot Noir
  • 90
  • $28
  • 2024-2026
Rates high on the easy drinkability scale thanks to a bright, bubbly personality. Tis the season coming up and that...
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Martha Mae nv

Corryton Burge Martha Mae Tasmanian Pinot Noir Chardonnay 2019

Red Wine - White Wine - Chardonnay - Pinot Noir
  • 93
  • $45
  • 2024-2027
Tasmania is now the go-to source for top sparklings. It says something that Corryton Burge which calls the Barossa Valley...
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Tapanappa Definitus PinotNoir

Tapanappa Definitus Foggy Hill Pinot Noir 2018

Red Wine - Pinot Noir
  • 96
  • $115
  • 2024-2033
Sometimes, the early sell out of a wine is actually good news for drinkers. Take the Definitis ’21 Pinot Noir...
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Tapanappa FoggyHill PinotNoir

Tapanappa Foggy Hill Vineyard Pinot Noir 2023

Red Wine - Pinot Noir
  • 92
  • $60
  • 2024-2033
At the highest point of the Fleurieu Peninsula, half-way between Victor Harbour and Cape Jervis, lies the Foggy Hill Vineyard....
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MB SV Chardonnay NV NEW()

Millbrook Chardonnay 2022

White Wine - Chardonnay
  • 92
  • $35
  • 2024-2027
For sheer joyfulness and the Chardonnay spirit of summer, this Geographe Chardie fits the bill. Gotta love all the zing...
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SettlersRidgeCheninBlanc

Settlers Ridge Margaret River Chenin Blanc 2023

White Wine - Chenin Blanc
  • 90
  • $35
  • 2024-2028
Some low intervention, no added preservative, organic wine action happening here. Lemony bright hues. Textural and honeyed, warm and gentle,...
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Somerville Shiraz NV

Paracombe Somerville Shiraz 2014

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 93
  • $70
  • 2024-2028
A 10-year-old Adelaide Hills Shiraz is something of a rarity. Equally, an Adelaide Hills Shiraz bolstered by 15% alcohol. Rest...
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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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