Paracombe Adelaide Hills Somerville Shiraz 2015
- 93
- $75
- Drink by: 2025-2028
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It is far from usual to see a 15% ABV Adelaide Hills Shiraz, rarer still to see a 10-year-old Hills museum release Shiraz. Here they are – one and the same – and it’s looking mighty smart. Speaks of its Hills’ home with those arresting woody spices, bay leaf and violet florals married to dark fruits, earth, smoked smallgoods. Looking pretty youthful altogether, carried well by spritely savoury tannins. Carries its age very well. A touch of alcohol heat to close.
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.
