Hewitson Ned & Henry’s Barossa Valley Shiraz 2021
- 92
- $35
- Drink by: 2023-2025
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Grabs you at first sight literally with those brilliant, iridescent purple hues. Fruit driven aromas set about seducing you further, laced in black cherry, bramble and plum, ably assisted by aniseed, briar earthy notes and background vanilla spice. Ned and Henry’s Shiraz is one lively, sweet-fruited, plummy and utterly enjoyable wine clearly intended for earlier rather than later drinking. Fine tannins help deliver that drinkability and, it must also be said, that the role of oak – seasoned French oak barriques aged three to 10 years in age – provides agreeable woodsy spice and texture, while never being loud or intrusive. This is one smart Barossa shiraz.
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.
