Beresford McLaren Vale Grenache 2025

Grenache has many personalities. This youngster falls into the modern Oz style where tannin and phenolics help heighten the wine’s profusion of cherry fruits before finishing cherry pip grippy and dry. It makes for a lingering, fresh finish. But, I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s return to the start. Cherry red-purple hues. Aromas bring a pinch of black pepper, rose florals and musk to ripe cherries. There is plenty of life and energy on the palate combining crushed cherries, raspberries, cranberries with musk confection  notes amid earth and autumn leaves. Then those gorgeous aforementioned tannins come into play bringing structure and form. Flavours run deep yet elegant and those tannins have an important role to play.

Jeni Port

Wine critic at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic