Cape Mentelle Heritage Shiraz 2022
- 95
- $98
- Drink by: 2025-2038
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Taps into the deep well of Shiraz’s considerable power. Deep purple hues. Aromas of sweet aromatics, liquorice, baking spices, pepper, loganberry, plum, black fruits with some cocoa toasty oak notes. Flexes its muscle with some particularly schmick oak. The oak component isn’t shy and is in keeping with the power and ripeness – not to mention, depth – of the fruit. Tannins are firm, tightly coiled. It has a way to go which is clearly the intention. The winemaker suggests up to 15 years. I can only agree.
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.
