Henschke Five Shillings Shiraz Mataro 2025
- 92
- $38
- Drink by: 2026-2033
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Long time darlings of the Barossa – Shiraz and Mataro (aka Mourvèdre) – get together and put on one delicious show. Time in aged French oak lends not so much an oak flavour but rather lays the textural groundwork for an impressive fruit presence – dark plums aplenty, blue fruits, blackberry and raspberry – punctured in well-seasoned spices, liquorice and a splash of black pepper. As it moves across the tongue, an earthy savouriness emerges before finishing dry with lasting spiciness. Makes for a charming regional statement.
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.
