Oliver’s Taranga Shiraz 2023
- 91
- $32
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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While it was a cool, wet vintage in the Vale in 2023, there is no stopping the generosity of flavour to be found in this 2023 Shiraz. It starts with deep, dark purple hues. Dense, inky and muscular, it is a wine still evolving and yet to fully integrate. Give it time. High tannins work with concentrated ripe fruit and oak. Blueberry, black plum, black berries and fine spice come laced in bay leaf and eucalyptus bush notes. Wears a nice sheen of clean pencil shaving oak.
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.
