Penfolds Magill Estate Shiraz 2023
- 95
- $180
- Drink by: 2025-2043
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Magill Estate’s evolution is now becoming quite palpable. With each vintage there is more poise, detail and finely nuanced oak. In a cool year like ’23 it may be more obvious, either way, it is welcomed. Bright, ripe fruit aromas on show, stewed plums, black fruits, roasted hazelnut and chocolate with blackstrap liquorice. Texturally smooth, it’s dense in flavour, quite full for Magill that tells of a concentrated richness, albeit tethered to firm tannins. The touch of sweet blueberry and plum and peppery spice makes it entirely approachable now, another note of evolution for the wine maybe?
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.
