Otro Vino Margaret River Tempranillo 2025

A wine built for the table, for food, for sharing with friends, such is the easy going nature of this accessible fruit-filled Tempranillo. Aromas are warm and inviting in briar, red liquorice, dark cherries, plum, spice. But it is the earthiness, a deep resounding scent, that impresses together with the spice notes. Not a flamboyant Tempranillo, quite subtle – a little Spanish inspired perhaps – with its joven-style fruitiness and rustic tannins. Spice roams the palate with black fruits, cherries, herbs, briar, earth and finishes at a clip with a pronounced cherry pip, dry tannin firmness – clean and grippy. One smart Tempranillo that works the tastebuds, hence, the call for a food partner. Maybe something Spanish-inspired?

Jeni Port

Wine critic at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic