Hare’s Chase The Springer Barossa Valley Shiraz 2022
- 91
- $42
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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Combines the best of both drink-now and cellar-for-later worlds with its medium-bodied, youthful display of ripeness and freshness. The lead into the 2022 vintage in the Barossa was dry and moderately warm and, hence, a strong year for Shiraz. Oak influence is kept on the lowdown allowing the fruit to shine in black cherry, plum, black berries and just a gentle dusting of spice. A general earthiness with Aussie bush notes helps lift the palate and give that warm Barossan touch. Medium term ageing will suit this wine.
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.
