Mitolo McLaren Vale Lupo Shiraz 2020
- 91
- $32
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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A step up from the trad Shiraz style, one that is fine-featured and under-stated in youth, but remains pretty much in building mode. You can almost see the building blocks of development in motion: the quiet, spice-laden fruit, the firm tannins, the inky astringency to close. It’s all here, both for now – and I would enjoy it right now – or later. Blackberry, cassis, briar, blackstrap liquorice and relatively modest oak are lifted by a leafy, autumnal earthiness. Remains firm, keeping things tight.
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.
