Gundog Indomitus Rutilus 2024

Winemaker Matt Burton is in his happy place with the Indomitus range revealing an inner creative flair that takes him into what, on the surface, appears to be the familiar but is far from it.  On the surface, this is a Hilltops blend of Shiraz, Tempranillo and Grenache. Under that surface you experience a wine of both power and finesse, a tricky wine minefield to explore and it’s done with great style. Sour cherries, black cherries, plum, red liquorice, spice, earth and thyme aromas. Restraint – at the inner heart of the Indomitus style – is beautifully captured while still retaining full flavours in black and red fruits, lively spice, chocolate, red liquorice, leaf and light savouriness. A lovely wine nicely restrained in structure and savoury tannins and finishing on a savoury sour cherry high note that zings.

Jeni Port

Wine critic at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic