Mitolo Jester McLaren Vale Shiraz 2021
- 89
- $25
- Drink by: 2024-2027
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The taster steps straight into the middle of a warm, spice-fuelled, black fruited, archetypal McLaren Vale Shiraz. It’s big and cuddly, warm and so very easy to enjoy. Ripe and sweet fruited with chocolatey oak and spice that goes on and on, it could have so easily got out of control, but is nicely tapered with the arrival of red fruits that join in on the palate. Tannin marshals help draw some boundaries. That dry, astringent finish is clean and well judged.
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.
