Hare’s Chase The Springer Barossa Valley Shiraz 2021
- 90
- $40
- Drink by: 2024-2027
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Plenty to get your teeth stuck into both literally and figuratively. This is a good, solid Barossa Shiraz from a top year, chock full in so much flavour you could almost carve it (well, almost). Layer upon layer of fruit – blackberry, black cherry – and spice – aniseed, clove, cinnamon – and dark chocolate, turned earth, and what’s more, it is nicely weighted and well-proportioned throughout. Oak brings a toasted cedary quality to the wine, which can’t be ignored, but which works in well with the overall generosity of flavour. Just add lamb and you will be on a real winner of a food-wine match.
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.
