Cape Mentelle Shiraz 2022
- 90
- $49
- Drink by: 2024-2032
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A pleasure-to-meet-you kind of Margaret River Shiraz. An intriguing wine, both forward, ripe and warm in fruit flavour, but also sporting a robust mesh of tannins which gives the impression that it remains in building mode. Blackberry, black plum, black cherry, earth and baking spices lead the way on the mid-weighted palate. Runs through to a quiet finish when tasted as the fruit dial slowly turns down and the tannin dial nudges drier. Would enjoy time at the table with a medium rare steak at this early stage in its development.
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.
