Kilikanoon Covenant Shiraz 2024
- 92
- $40
- Drink by: 2026-2034
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There is something intrinsically Australian – Clare Valley, too, for that matter – about raising a glass of red and the sweet scent of Aussie bush and mint slowly infiltrates the senses. You are taken into the country in one sniff, one taste. Covenant ’24 boasts a lively immediacy with the strong scent of mint, peppermint, Aussie bush, mingling freely with black fruits, blueberries and plum with a light spiciness in train. The comfort factor runs high here in a wine that is warm and generous. A savoury, black olive note finds its way on the palate amid ripe fruits, spice, mint, bay leaf and earth and a dressing of cedary, toasty oak. Oak then proceeds to close the wine.
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.
