Brown Brothers Patricia Shiraz 2017
- 95
- $62
- Drink by: 2022-2030
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Patricia shiraz has tended to live in the shadow of its highly acclaimed sibling, cabernet sauvignon. It’s been an easy wine to take for granted, but no more. In an excellent year like 2017, it certainly stands up quality-wise. Ripe in fruit – all blackberry, dark cherry with a touch of sweet blueberry – and woody spices and smoky, toasty oak, it’s far from shy. Concentrated fruit flavours are joined by a layer of aromatics which really lift the wine. It’s medium-bodied and graceful with well-rounded tannins that fit into every crevice, providing a seamless flow of flavour with more than enough structure to see out a good decade or more in the bottle.
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.
