O’Leary Walker Polish Hill River/Armagh Shiraz 2023
- 95
- $40
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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A difficult vintage to be sure but this sub-regional blend doesn’t miss a beat. The power and concentration we associate with Polish Hill River and Armagh Shiraz are well in place and, so too, the beauty. A harmony is noted whether it is in a perfume of black fruits, cassis, dark plum, toasted spice and liquorice, or on the fine-ness of expression as the wine winds its way across the tongue. Oak is a background feature, a seamless kind of quality, and tannins are generous but fine. A lovely wine.
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.
