Mt. Bera Wild & Free Adelaide Hills Shiraz 2024
- 92
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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Such florals as you rarely get to enjoy in an Adelaide Hills Shiraz and they come side by side with lively spice and aromatic red fruits. It’s a different experience to the usual, no doubt the result of a vintage in which yields were down, but the flavours are exciting. Aromas of pressed flowers and violet with spice and peppery influenced cherry, raspberries and red berries. Those lifted peppery notes continue on the palate which has plenty of bounce courtesy of fresh acidity and brisk tannins. There is a light herbal leafiness to the wine and, together with red fruits, lifted peppery notes and spice, it’s one medium-bodied, elegant and energised young red.
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.
