Penfolds Bin 150 Marananga Shiraz 2023
- 95
- $100
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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Polish and concentration matched to some extraordinary dark purple hues, Marananga Shiraz is quite the individual, year in, year out. In the ’23 vintage, it combines its usual level of intensity with some impressive finesse. Dark, brooding black fruit, dark plum and blueberry intensity meets spice – some pretty lively aromatic spices – and dark dusty cacao notes. It’s solid Barossa Shiraz to its core but delivered beautifully through the work of elegant, fine tannins, taking the wine super long and lingering on the finish. Flavours are complex, intense, moving beyond the fruit-filled to savoury with notes of ironstone, earth, olives and wild herbs.
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.
