Best’s Wines Thomson Family Shiraz 2020
- 95
- $250
- Drink by: 2025-2043
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It’s not usual for wine producers to hold back wine after a planned release date to give the wine more time to grow. But the Thomson family recently did it with their flagship Thomson Family Shiraz 2020. It’s a wine they hold dear, sourced from just 15 rows of 1868 vines, and the extra time will undoubtedly be appreciated by wine drinkers. It’s a real charmer of a wine, elegant and distinguished, with only the kind of quality stamp that old vine Shiraz can bring. Starts with a flourish of aromatics and fruit, of dark plum, cassis, briar, sweetly spiced oak and earth. There’s an impressive intensity here laid out across a palate wrapped in firm, fine tannins and finishing with focus and length. Terrific and balance and purity of Shiraz expression.
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.
