Bleasdale Generations Shiraz 2020
- 95
- $35
- Drink by: 2023-2033
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A step up in depth and concentration of fruit which will be rewarded with further time in bottle. This is a keeper. The key is the complexity achieved in the 2020 vintage which is released in a myriad of aromas and flavours. My tasting notes definitely got a good work out: chocolate, plum, mulberry, earth with a touch of savoury-influenced black olive tapenade with anise and baking spices. I could go on, but you get the idea. This is a wine chockful of flavour but, and it’s an important but, there is also structure and fine-ness, weight and length. And it delivers at the price point.
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.
