Henschke Tappa Pass Shiraz 2018
- 95
- $115
- Drink by: 2021 - 2032
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Gorgeous fruit exuberance to this wine – utterly delightful – in the scent of black fruits, red liquorice, blueberry, a note of confection here, a sweet pocket of wine gums/pastille there.
Linear and fine-edged in structure, silky tannins and a powerful core of succulent, sweet-hearted fruit and spice flavours. Oak is present but there is no reliance on it. Like velvet on the tongue and boasting wonderful length.
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.
