Koonowla Clare Valley Shiraz Mataro 2020
- 90
- $45
- Drink by: 2023-2028
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A single vineyard blend of two of the Clare Valley’s strengths, Shiraz and Mataro – aka Mourvèdre. They bring an inherent fruit sweetness and ripeness to the glass which is very Clare in addition to delicious drinking. A good, sound, lightly savoury red wine with length, it’s hard to ask for more when served up with a roast leg of lamb with the trimmings, or vegetarian-friendly melanzane di parmigiana alla Siciliana. Blackcurrant, bramble, plum aniseed, cinnamon and earth – it’s chock full of flavour. Medium bodied, it works its 14.7% alcohol richness well with some tanned leather, toasted oak notes providing a supportive role and nothing more. Even-handed tannins provide accessible drinking now.
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.
