Kilikanoon Baudinet Grenache Shiraz Mataro 2019
- 96
- $55
- Drink by: 2023-2034
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A top tier GSM sourced from one of the Clare Valley’s highest vineyards. A blend of Grenache (53%), Shiraz (35%) and Mataro (12%), the three cool amigos are clearly enjoying each other’s company here. Together they bring brightness and purity which contrasts nicely with an impressive depth of flavour. The result is all class and elegance. Aromas cover a lot of ground, from red fruits through to darker black cherry and blackberry, pepper, clove and earth. Sits seamlessly in the mouth, every niche covered. The palate wields fine tannins with impressive style, elevating the peppery aromatics, the punchy maraschino cherry notes, not to mention the discreet savouriness. The choc-vanillin oak is particularly nicely placed, intuitive almost, simply matching harmoniously with the wine. We used to treat GSM as simply a nice everyday kind of wine. No more.
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.
