Chaffey Bros. Super Barossa Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz 2021

The classic Aussie blend from a classic vintage, equals one rollicking, good time kind of wine. Combines old vines sourced from the Rohrlach Vineyard at Dorrien with some nicely integrated oak – 18 months in French hogsheads – and the effect is one smart charmer of a four-year-old. It’s got a big future ahead of it. Super expressive from the first sniff of dark plums, blackberry and blue fruits and a heady collection of baking spices. Cabernet brings a touch of class with its herbals, briar and blackcurrant, not to mention those striking fine, supple tannins. Shiraz fills the middle with its sweet fruit presence, blackcurrant pastille notes and overall generosity. It’s a lovely marriage and the best part? Every time you return to the glass you note something different – the violet aromatics, that touch of bitter dark chocolate, that hint of Barossa earth and touch of leaf.

Jeni Port

Wine critic at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic