Eisenstone d’Or Shiraz 2021
- 93
- $190
- Drink by: 2024-2046
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A blend of the best parcels of Barossa Shiraz from three top sub-regions – Ebenezer, Greenock and Marananga – and a top vintage. You can almost see the sub-regional expressions come alive in the glass: the savouriness of Greenock, the earthy richness of Ebenezer and the fruit intensity of Marananga. It’s all quite rich and imposing in earth, leather, chocolate panforte, blackberry, fruitcake, prune, rum and raisin. It certainly defines what Barossa Shiraz means to many wine lovers, big on flavour, smooth and even in delivery, delivering a boldness of fruit to centre stage in an attractive, polished whole. The outstanding vintage doesn’t hurt, either.
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.
