Cape Mentelle Zinfandel 2020
- 95
- $65
- Drink by: 2023-2037
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No edges, no obvious oak, no heavy handedness, no over-the-top alcohols here. If you have been a victim of Zinfandel in the past – and many of us have been – feel free to re-engage with this absolute charmer. A Zinfandel of some elegance, the Cape Mentelle winemakers – and viticulturists – have outdone themselves. Elegance lives here and I love the weave of spice and fruit – almost playful – the white pepper, the sage, dark, dark fruit and chocolate all well controlled and integrated. So smooth in fine tannin presence, finishing with aromatic lift and length.
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.
