Leconfield McLaren Vale Shiraz 2023
- 93
- $28
- Drink by: 2026-2030
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A brilliant sheen on deep purple hues. This is a wine not shy on oak, revealing its time in French oak hogsheads against a richness of fruit flavour which, happily, helps justify the oak decision. Aromas are high and jump from the glass in an oak-defined pleasures of chocolate, woody spices, earth, cigar box, sage, anise, blackstrap liquorice surrounding black berries. Runs very much in the McLaren Vale Shiraz style with a quiet richness and unctuousness that is immediately appealing. The palate is middle palate rich, there’s a lot of flavour on board finishing with an intriguing black pepperiness that ranges 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.
