Kilikanoon Attunga 1865 Museum Release Shiraz 2015

Originally released to celebrate the company’s Attunga Shiraz vines turning 150 years old, and here it is today still going strong. Longevity runs in its vinous veins. So, too, does generosity. This is one deeply fruited wine, impressive in weight with a familiar Clare Valley boldness to its personality. Acacia, briar, earth scents mix with black cherry and plum, chocolate and Dutch liquorice with hints of savoury black olive. Oak is up the challenge laid down, starring on a palate in prominent woodsy spices in cassia bark and chocolate. Tannins are equally generous and finely textured. Finishes long with a savoury nod to chocolate-covered marzipan that brings a super clean full stop to a most drinkable and enjoyable piece of Clare Valley wine history.

Jeni Port

Wine critic at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic