Krondorf Stone Altar Old Vine Shiraz 2022
- 94
- $65
- Drink by: 2024-2032
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Dense, dark purple hues. Arrives in the glass in rich, concentrated aromas plush in spice, chocolate, black fruits, black plum, earth, baked earth and briar. This is a wine of the land and the grape with old vine Shiraz sourced from the Light Pass and Lyndoch sub-regions of the Barossa. Continues the theme as it travels across the palate, dense, full bodied, heavy in spice, pan forte, dark chocolate, black fruits and, overall, nicely refined in tannins. Classic old vines bring an almost effortless integrity to wine, as tasted here. A touch hot to close, but this remains one smart Barossa Shiraz.
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.
