Eisenstone Marananga Shiraz 2022
- 95
- $90
- Drink by: 2024-2037
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Marananga offers one of the most individual and expressive styles of Barossa Shiraz. The sub-region reigns supreme here in all of its usual multi-coloured glory from the deep purple intensity in colour to the signature blue and purple fruits, finishing with dark, earthy mineral notes so intrinsic to its ironstone soils. Blue fruit, plum, a gentle swathe of dried herbs, nutmeg, spice and fig fill the glass. While a richly embroidered Shiraz, it is beautifully expressive and finely detailed. The trad Eisenstone oak regime – maturation in 50% new French oak, maturation for 18 months before release – brings added texture and full integration of fruit and sub regional terroir expression.
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.
