Hare’s Chase The Springer Barossa Valley Shiraz 2020
- 91
- $40
- Drink by: 2024-2032
Share
We know the 2020 vintage in the Barossa was a super-hot, dry one. Which makes this ’20 Shiraz all the more impressive. It retains the type of typical Barossa generosity and boldness associated with a hot year, but delivers it with plenty of charm. A ripe, dark fruited expression of black fruits, spice, chocolate, pan forte notes and some layered, toasty oak throughout. The palate remains fresh and well composed thanks to the role of firm, ripe tannins. They nail the brief, drawing rich fruit and spice flavours out and taking them long.
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.
