Oliver’s Taranga Small Batch Sagrantino 2023
- 89
- $55
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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Some wines are made to enjoy without food – save for a nibble or two – while some were made with the very firm idea that food should be forthcoming. This Sagrantino falls into the latter category. Deep impenetrable in colour. Equally dark in the aroma department with rich scents of black cherry, earth, leather, cured meats and dark chocolate. It’s a wine well-structured thanks to the grape’s naturally plentiful supply of tannin. It is filled to brimming in savoury flavours edged in black fruits, woodsy spices, earth and undergrowth. The only question remaining is what do you serve this wine with? Those tannins are going to slurp up a roasted meat dish with all the trimmings. For vegetarians, make it eggplant parmigiana.
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.
