Kilikanoon Covenant Shiraz 2019
- 93
- $40
- Drink by: 2024-2033
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A real crowd pleaser, and what a treat to see a classic-style Clare Valley Shiraz with a few years under its belt. Inviting, warm and sweet fruited, Covenant celebrates a Shiraz bursting in flavour and character. Sweet tobacco, vanilla, black cherry, bramble and plum, star anise and peppercorn aromas offer up a rousing ode to the Aussie Shiraz style. Nothing shy here in the least. Indeed, the palate warmed by French oak in vanilla bean and milk chocolate is home to savoury notes in cured meat and earth among the richness of fruit and spice. Flows easily, super confidently, thanks to the role of 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.
