Krondorf 121 Settlers Old Vine Shiraz 2022
- 96
- $110
- Drink by: 2026-2040
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Barossan Shiraz can cop a lot of flak for its boldness, richness and generosity. So, let’s hear it for Barossa Shiraz when it is done very, very well. Dark and brooding, 121 Settlers is a big hearted Shiraz delivered with class. The hands that fashioned this wine deserve recognition for an astute handling of fruit, oak and tannin to produce a seemingly effortless quality. Aromas of woody spiced oak, ripe blackberries, plum, bay leaf, Aussie bush and dusty cocoa. Dense, generous and ripe with a smooth running all the way through, it’s the fine work of the tannins that keep things fresh and bright with a firm structural integrity well in place. It retains its Barossa address and that’s both reassuring and absolutely required. And amid the black fruits, the blackstrap liquorice, spice, chocolate and vanilla, you are surrounded by a big Barossan hug delivered with love. How good is that? And, what’s more, it’s a keeper.
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.
