Dellys Vineyard The Treetop Shiraz 2017
- 93
- $50
- Drink by: 2023-2028
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Deep garnet hues glisten in the glass. Complex savoury aroma notes to the fore, whetting the appetite, with game, turned earth and mushroom plus blackberry, bramble. Unwinds slowly, deliberately, in well-melded layers of fruit and oak against an overlay of savouriness. As a six-year-old Shiraz it shows some development but will continue to grow; it has complexity and structure on its side. The presence of the Pyrenees is never too far away, a good sense of terroir here, if you will, with gum leaf, bush, briar notes joining forces with the fruit and oak tannins. Love the Pyrenees spice uptick on the finish to bring about a bright finale.
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.
