Oliver’s Taranga Small Batch Grenache 2022
- 90
- $32
- Drink by: 2023-2026
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McLaren Vale is increasingly seen as the home of Grenache in Australia. Rightly so, with a complete range of styles being produced. This Grenache slips easily into the bright and lively category with its light-ish red colour and summery cherry-berry-musk-confection notes. Red cherries are a dominant feature, but as it gains ground on the palate there is some added heft as the wine fills out with gentle sweet, smoky oak and texture. It’s a little charmer built to be enjoyed without food, if you fancy. It’s complete in itself.
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.
