Parker Estate Terra Rossa Shiraz 2022
- 92
- $34
- Drink by: 2024-2032
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At first look, some generous winemaking stats might tell one story, but the taste tells another. This Coonawarra Shiraz boasts 14.5% alcohol and 12 months maturation in French oak – 40% new – which could indicate one biggie of a wine, but, whoa, the result is one well-balanced, lively-fruited young red! The fruit is more than up to the task with its richness of black cherry, plum and ripe blackberry against a background bright in spice, vanilla and gentle woodsy notes. Joyous, fresh and vital with immediate drinking appeal such is the buoyancy of that lovely fruit. And, yes, the oak and alcohol move quietly in the background. So much for paying attention to the winemaking stats.
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.
