Payne’s Rise Redlands Shiraz 2024
- 95
- $39
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Seventy percent destemmed, the wine spent 12 months in a combination of 20% new barriques and older oak. It was bottled unfined and unfiltered. The colour is a vivid purple with a blue tinge. The nose is compact and dense, reluctant to give up all its aromas in just a few sniffs. Notes of turned earth, clove and pink peppercorn sit alongside mulberries, blackberries, coffee bean and dark cocoa. The palate is decidedly savoury, with chunky tannins carrying an iron-like edge, perhaps a reflection of the local red ferrosol soils. An herbal lift of dried sage and rosemary, with a sprinkle of cinnamon, betrays the 30% whole-bunch component. Overall, it is a well composed and well-balanced wine, finishing with a fine, gracious, fruit-led length.
Lisa Cardelli is an Italian-born wine professional who has been based in Melbourne since 2010. She worked as a sommelier in some of the city’s leading fine-dining restaurants for over ten years before leaving hospitality to become a wine sales representative. Lisa is now a journalist for Il Globo, the newspaper for Italians in Australia and around the world, where she also curates her own wine column. She continues to write about wine for both local and international publications and is on track to become one of the few prolific bilingual wine writers in Australia. A certified WSET Educator, she teaches at various venues across Melbourne. She also judges at local wine shows and for the prestigious Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards. Lisa was the recipient of the 2022 Wine Communicators of Australia award for Best Published Feature Article, a finalist for the same award in 2024, the recipient of the 2022 Sydney Royal Wine Professional Development Scholarship sponsored by the Len Evans Foundation, and one of twelve carefully selected Len Evans Scholars in 2024.
