Hewitson Barrel 1853 Shiraz Mourvèdre 2022
- 97
- $450
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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A 50-50 blend of the best barrel of Monopole Mother Vine Shiraz and Old Garden Vineyard Mourvèdre. A true seamless beauty which is all the more impressive when you realise that the 2022 vintage in the Barossa was a little challenging, coming after a record rainfall in 2021 and was mostly on the cooler side. The result is a medium-bodied, fine-tannin-ed wine where the fruit and spice move warmly, easily and long. Fruits range from the red and blue berried to the dark and the spices sing with star anise, chocolate and hints of gingerbread. Dressed in polished tannins, it arrives as one harmonious whole.
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.
