Krondorf 121 Settlers Old Vine Shiraz 2021
- 95
- $115
- Drink by: 2025-2036
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An exceptional vintage expressed well which, after all, is all a wine drinker can ask for. It’s here in one pretty schmick old vine Shiraz brimming in aromas of chocolate, coffee, black fruits and ripe dark plums. Has that sun-kissed black fruit intensity – ripe and sunny – running across the palate, in league with some authentic Barossa Aussie bush and bay leaf, spice and vanillin oak. It’s a lovely expressive middle palate dressed in a fine line of tannin which fully allows the fruit to sing and, it might be said, allows for further bottle age. Flows warmly and long.
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.
