Mt. Bera Amphitheatre Blaufränkisch 2024
- 92
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2029
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Never heard of the Austrian red grape, Blaufränkisch? You are in for a treat. Together with its Austrian friend, Grüner Veltliner, the grape now calls the Adelaide Hills home and in the cool climate suits it down to the ground. Vibrant purple hues. Equally vibrant blueberry, black cherry aromas with pomegranate, violet and hints of herbals. It’s a fragrant and inviting start to the wine and it doesn’t slow down once it hits the glass. Those blue and red plummy fruits join spice and gentle herbs lighting up the palate with some top summer drinking appeal finishing on a bright black cherry and spice note.
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.
