La Kooki Las Piedras Tempranillo 2021
- 93
- $40
- Drink by: 2024-2031
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A Tempranillo that takes its lead from its varietal homeland, investing in savouriness and a tannin-taut approach which immediately makes it a wine to be enjoyed with food. Structure is important here. Good colour with dark cherries, plum, spice, earth and leather aromas. The palate opens savoury and dark in a big mouthful of black fruits, earth, liquorice, bitter chocolate and exotic spices. Expressive, taut tannins surround the wine, vanillin/savoury oak assists, before finishing dry and astringent. The fruit was sourced from the Ferguson Valley in the Geographe wine region, north of Margaret River, an area to watch when it comes to Tempranillo.
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.
