Kilikanoon Attunga 1865 Shiraz 2016
- 95
- $250
- Drink by: 2024-2036
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Hot on the heels of the 2015 release, we have the 2016 Attunga 1865 Shiraz, a museum release. Interestingly, while it comes with a smaller price tag, it remains one big mouthful of flavour as per the ‘15. Ripe, full of flavour and deep in old vine fruit concentration, there is a world of aniseed, black fruits, sweet black plums, leather, earth and dark spice, with a smattering of salami-preserved meat savouriness, to explore. Toasted cedar oak notes on the back palate tend to be a little obvious, but then this is a big wine which is still on a journey and time is on its side. Tannins are well placed throughout on a long finish. Ageing well with fruit to burn.
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.
