Oliver’s Taranga Corrina’s Shiraz Cabernet 2021
- 90
- $40
- Drink by: 2023-2028
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The Vale’s signature red grape – Shiraz – meets the Vale’s hugely under-rated red grape – Cabernet Sauvignon. The duo make for a dynamic vinous presence in the glass. Shiraz brings a sweet core of black fruits, raspberry and plum with a pastille-like sweetness together with lifted spice. Cabernet makes its presence felt, especially on the bouquet, with a vegetative, leafy intensity, earthiness, briar and bramble. Toasted oak is warm and inviting, a great vehicle for the two grape varieties to shine. Fine tannins make their presence felt, albeit woven discreetly.
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.
