Chapel Hill The MV McLaren Vale Shiraz 2022
- 92
- $33
- Drink by: 2023-2034
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Chapel Hill’s The MV reds are a real mix of styles from the approachable to the savoury, to something that might best be described as more traditional. The MV Shiraz falls firmly into the latter category. That colour in deepest, darkest, glistening purple. That scent in dark plum, ripe black berries, earth, chocolate and spiced oak in allspice and clove. The fruit is ripe, earthy and dark; the texture warm and well-coated. And then there are those tannins, enough to make their impact felt, enough to offer the kind of structure that will see the Shiraz through to a good 10 years or so. As I was saying, very McLaren Vale.
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.
