Eisenstone McDonald Vineyard Marananga Shiraz 2022
- 96
- $125
- Drink by: 2024-2024
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Such a lovely vibrancy and immediacy to the fruit and the intensity is off the charts. Welcome to Marananga! Colour is deepest purple, almost black. Spices, florals and fruit mix and whirl and lift in a seamless, unforced way. Blue fruits, red liquorice, black cherry, plum, sage, a touch of green herbals and earth with a splash of savoury soy, dark chocolate and cigar box – it’s an impressively complex set of flavours – swept along with lovely, velvety lithe tannins. The line of deep fruit intensity is just so part of Marananga. Still has plenty left in the tank. Give it time, if you have the patience.
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.
