Byrne Vineyards Sidney Wilcox Vine Dried Shiraz 2022
- 90
- $22
- Drink by: 2025-2028
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Made specifically to pair with food and going on the front label graphic, the winemaker has a big, juicy steak in mind. This Riverland red, a big impact kind of wine, was made to partner rich, red meats. This is a ripe and fully textured Shiraz with plenty of concentration and interest, chockful of blackberry, dark plum, dark baking spices, blackstrap liquorice, pan forte and chocolatey woody oak notes. With time in the glass, some baked earth, leather and savoury meaty notes – how appropriate! – open up and are fully revealed. A wine to be enjoyed soon, that is, with the next barbecue!
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.
