Leura Park Estate Shiraz 2017
- 91
- $45
- Drink by: 2020 - 2030
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My first tasting note on this wine: “Whoa, there’s a bit happening here.” It’s no lie.
Smoky bacon, game, leather against a background of black cherries and red fruits, aromatics and high spice threaded throughout. It’s also a tale of two halves as savouriness gives way to signature shiraz chocolate and licorice on the palate. Oak isn’t shy, but it’s mighty good and in balance. Supple tannins complete the picture of a cool climate Shiraz with a touch of savoury attitude.
As I said at the start, “There’s a bit happening here.”
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.
