Henschke Stone Jar Eden Valley Tempranillo 2023
- 90
- $50
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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A winemaker who made Tempranillo in Spain always talked about the “red liquorice” character he sought in the variety. This Eden Valley Tempranillo has it, and it’s a delight. Brings that red liqorice spice to the fore together with a black cherry and blueberry brightness of fruit with dried rosemary, mustard seed, cocoa. Amid the fruit though there is a European-inspired savouriness of earth, dry leaves – a real autumnal touch – and a light, amaro bitter quality. It offers a fitting and fresh finish to what is a big, flavour-rich middle palate.
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.
