Lienert Estate Barossa Valley Mataro 2018
- 92
- $45
- Drink by: 2022-2032
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Mataro as you so rarely see it these days; alone and stark naked without its buddies, Shiraz and Grenache. I hope you enjoy the show – I did – because it’s clearly enjoying itself as it presents to the drinker some pretty scrumptious fruit. And it’s all about the teeming fruit. For a three-year-old, it fairly bounces in the glass in red cherry, plum, blueberry nicely countered by some darker, savoury shades of earth and undergrowth. There’s a peppery spice lurking there, too, which is something that Mataro does very well. Hopefully, we get to see more Mataros like this, sans friends and standing proud. That would be nice and most welcome.
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.
