Black & Ginger Cinco Rojas 2022
- 91
- $45
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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Five Spanish/Portuguese red grape varieties combine, and the marriage made in Great Western brings forth some pretty impressive savoury oomph. Graciano, Grenache, Tinta Cão, Tinta Roriz and Touriga Nacional make a fine bunch of like-minded red buddies. There’s plenty of love, spice and red fruited talent to go around in what is essentially a rustic-edged, earthy country wine with class. Baking spices aplenty combine with briar and earth, cherry and plum with additional notes of game and charcuterie. Oak isn’t shy, stepping up on the middle palate and finish. Savoury tannins complete this textural, sweet fruited, savoury red which is mighty tasty.
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.
