Oliver’s Taranga Brioni’s Blend 2022
- 90
- $35
- Drink by: 2023-2027
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Brioni has good taste. This is a blend of Mataro (aka Mourvèdre), Touriga Nacional and Shiraz, not your usual blending buddies but the charming, lightly spicy result is exciting. Each grape brings something to the whole which is, after all, the point of blending. In this case, it’s a lighter style of red, the kind sommeliers love because it opens up so many food options. Black cherry in colour. It combines a black and red fruit perfume and the prettiest lifted aromatics, with violets to the forefront. Mourvèdre brings its spice game to the palate and combined with plums, dark cherries and a touch of sage and oregano, it’s the star of this juicy, lively 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.
