Mitchell Wines McNicol Shiraz Clare Valley 2009
- 91
- $60
- Drink by: 2021 - 2024
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Not every Australian wine producer sees the need for a cellaring program, one that celebrates aged wines. Keeping and maintaining inventory can be expensive, so it’s heartening to see a small, family-owned Clare Valley producer maintaining a cellaring program for its two regional stars: riesling and shiraz.
McNicol shiraz brings a touch of old school Clare about it or, maybe it’s the wine’s age talking, with its scent of baked earth, leather, dried fruit, clove, cinnamon and touch of local eucalypt. It keeps a medium-bodied presence, quite svelte, as it enters its second decade and embarks on a range of mature and savoury characters led by earth and leather.
At the top of its game.
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.
