Hare’s Chase Vigilance Marananga Shiraz 2021

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  • $50
  • Drink by: 2024-2033

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This is BIG – impenetrable in deep purple colour, opulent in aroma and complex in flavours that take the palate for one long, enjoyable ride. The Marananga sub-region of the Barossa with its rich, red clay and sandy soils specialises in some of the most distinctive Shiraz in the Valley. Here, it is on display in all of its black fruited and lightly savoury, mineral element. Dark plum fruits, liquorice, woodsy spice, espresso, bitter chocolate, black olive with a touch of pan forte, are all drawn together by woodsy oak. Oak, a warm and an inviting feature, is joined by supple tannins. Plenty of oomph all round. Consider further ageing, it will be rewarded.

Jeni Port
Wine critic at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic
Pilot
Jeni Port
Date
Variety: Red Wine, Shiraz
Categories: Drinks, Australian Wines