Frankland Estate Shiraz 2023
- 92
- $35
- Drink by: 2026-2030
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Impressive dark, dense purple hues. Starts quietly with a lilting scent of Aussie bush notes, black fruit, smoked meats, vanilla and spice. Gains a stronger voice when tasted with a more obvious generosity of fruit and presence lifted aromatically by a warm, inviting spiciness. Sturdy, firm tannins roll out across the palate and with them a smooth-running texture, the perfect vehicle for a wealth of ripe black and red fruits, earth, sweet spiced oak and liquorice.
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.
