Black & Ginger Hounds Run Vineyard Shiraz 2022
- 94
- $45
- Drink by: 2024-2032
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A fair dose of Great Western class to this Shiraz with signature generous black fruits and spice drive, all rolled into a wine that never overstates or in any way looks ostentatious. Hounds Run is the Black & Ginger home vineyard. Fruit is ripe, matched to the kind of spice integral to Great Western Shiraz as well as from some obvious oak – but the wine is up to the oak challenge. Star anise, sage, black cherry and blackberry aromas. Opens up on the palate with an added pinch of peppercorn, woodsy oak, clove and baking spices. Delish. An emerging complexity is building in this youngster, love to see how it ages, should be a treat.
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.
