Hewitson Ned & Henry’s Barossa Valley Shiraz 2022
- 92
- $35
- Drink by: 2024-2028
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Another generous big hug straight from the Barossa. Dean Hewitson specialises in producing some of the friendliest reds in the country that come well-priced and bursting in flavour. Ned and Henry’s was created on a dare when the maker was challenged to produce a traditional, full-bodied Barossa wine that could be drunk young. Consider challenge met. An arresting bouquet in black fruits, plum, chocolate, liquorice, earth and spice. Sets the scene nicely for what follows with fruits dressed in warm vanillin French oak and supple tannins.
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.
