Curator Wine Company Greenock Vineyard Shiraz 2021

What is the difference between the white and black label Curator Greenock Vineyard Shiraz? Winemaker, Tom White, explains: “The black label is the single barrel which was singled out at tastings around the 10 month-mark. It didn’t negatively affect the blend being left out, so I kept it separate. “I do this when the opportunity presents.” Says something about the strength of the 2021 vintage, which some have described as “exceptional.” This is a wine that lives large in every sense.  The intense purple colour grabs the eye. The lovely, bold mesh of fruit and spice captures your immediate attention in lifted black strap liquorice, bramble, blackberry, aromatic fennel seed, clove and tilled earth. Showcases Greenock’s effortless generosity beautifully with good integration throughout in a  mix of black fruit intensity, spice, and toasted smoky oak, all dressed in robust, earthy tannins. Calls for words such as polished, distinguished and more.

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