El Toro Macho Utiel – Requena Reserva 2016
- 91
- $9
- Drink by: 2022-2026
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Looks to Spain’s indigenous red grapes, tempranillo and bobal, for its inspiration and personality. And there’s a lot of personality to enjoy. Densely packed with concentrated black cherry, plum, cigar box smokiness, spice, a light nuttiness all over an intense savoury core. The latter is quite a feature as it moves across the tongue in cedar and dried herbs with a penetrating sour cherry flavour which runs long. Not shy in the least, it definitely makes an impact in length, intensity and structure.
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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.
