Kilikanoon Prophecy Shiraz 2024

This wine is a tale of two distinct Shiraz. One is immediately spicy, black-hearted and sweet fruited – the charm factor is high. The other boasts a strong tannin presence forming a firmness of structure, a seriousness of intent – something to build a future on. In other words, it releases an obvious inner beauty slowly. Dark rose aromas join floral aromatics, sweet earth, dark spices, dark fruits and black olive notes with toasty oak. A warm note of mocha cocoa is a running thread on the palate, a background, approachable note, but there is also a deep concentration of fruit and spice, tightly constructed and firm. On the finish, it’s dry, firm, earthy with a savoury black olive note that entices. Remarkable. Not your ordinary Clare Shiraz. Give it the time it deserves.

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