Oliver’s Taranga Small Batch Brioni’s Blend 2024
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- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2029
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The base of Brioni’s blend tends to be Touriga Nacional and Grenache with a third party which can change from year to year. This year, it is Mencia, a 10% splash, blended with 71% Touriga and 19% Grenache. The three get along famously retaining a sweet-fruited, easy- drinking approachability while retaining some serious cred and ageing potential. It’s a win-win kind of wine. It’s all about ripe black cherries, blue fruits, red plum and some lovely aromatic spices – delivered so clean and fresh – in tandem with bergamot florals, just a hint, which helps round the wine out. Touriga, a grape noteworthy in tannins, is expertly managed by the winemaker.
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.
