Oliver’s Taranga Small Batch Tempranillo 2023
- 92
- $35
- Drink by: 2023-2028
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Another strong Tempranillo release that celebrates the beauty of youth, a wine bursting in ripe black fruits and red cherries with a spicy kick. It’s all about the fruit, but this is not to suggest that it is simple. Far from it. Red liquorice, spices, cassia bark with a hint of panforte and summer berry aromas. Medium bodied with clean cut tannins, the middle palate is warm and comforting, finishing fine-edged. A supporting role of hazelnut oak and sour cherry, cranberry savouriness delivers that extra flavour touch.
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.
