Hare’s Chase Lepus Barossa Valley Shiraz 2022
- 95
- $178
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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If Vigilance shows the power that can come with Shiraz sourced from the Marananga sub-region of the Barossa Valley, then Lepus shows the intrinsic beauty and elegance. A “special parcel” of fruit was kept separate and with good reason. There is an intensity and concentration of fruit on show with some pretty smart tannins in place, lithe and generous, and the overall effect can be summed up in one word: sophistication. Tannins are woven through black berries, black cherry, plum, aniseed with a layer of warm vanillin oak seasoning and heady spices. Oak is not an over-statement but a helpful conduit for some high-quality fruit.
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.
