Credaro Kinship Shiraz 2020
- 93
- $40
- Drink by: 2022-2030
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There’s a lot of youthful energy with this wine. A beautifully captured regional statement of lifted florals, plum, blueberry, earthiness with a Dutch liquorice saline quality that contributes and accentuates the brightness. The black peppery notes, quite distinct, are a nice regional bonus. The palate is supple in tannins and flavoursome with an attractive lightly savoury quality highlighted with some mocha-choc oak. Many Margaret River producers don’t believe Shiraz has a future in the region, and some who did think it had a future have been slowly grafting it over to Marg’s number one red, Cabernet. That’s where the demand is. I’d like to think that wines like this show what is possible.
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.
