Hare’s Chase Ironscraper Barossa Valley Shiraz 2019
- 90
- $35
- Drink by: 2023-203-5
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There’s something about ripe, sweet-hearted Barossa Shiraz. It’s not only comforting and luscious, but when it’s also well-structured and well-defined, it sings. The secret ingredient here is old vine Shiraz with old vines contributing excellent concentration of fruit and balance. It’s bold and forthright. Deep-seated dark fruits with plenty of earthiness, high spice notes, chocolate, fruitcake and toasty oak. The palate is mapped out in firm, ripe tannins, carrying plenty of flavour to the point of unctuousness. Syrupy to close but, boy, the finish does last a long, long time.
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.
