Mount Langi Ghiran Pepper Series Shiraz 2021

Mount Langi in Victoria’s Grampian region is recognised as one of the great pioneers of cool climate Shiraz in Australia. The Pepper Series is dedicated to a celebration of the pepper and spice charm of the style. That said, don’t expect pepper getting up your nose. This 2021 Shiraz with fruit from the Grampians, Heathcote, Bendigo and the less than cool region of Swan Hill, is not overtly peppery but rather the pepper compound – rotundone – is in harmony with some classy fruit. Briar, bramble, black peppercorn and blackberry fruit aromas are bright and perky. Supple in mouthfeel, almost understated, with fine grain tannin, it’s at once plush but also full of peppery spark as it comes to a close and lingers nicely. Top value here and there’s also the possibility for further ageing.

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Jeni Port

Wine critic at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic