Pepper Tree Limited Release Shiraz 2019
- 94
- $40
- Drink by: 2021-2028
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Let’s hear it for the grower, the winemaker and, above all, the Orange wine region. There are quite a few deft hands – including Mother Nature – involved in the making of this Shiraz. A fine balance is reached, and it makes for quite an arresting drink. It speaks fluently of the quality of the grapes and some sensitive winemaking from the brightness of the blue fruits, red berries and vanilla scents through to the fully integrated melding of flavours on the palate. Satiny texture, plenty of ripe fruits on display with a feature made of woody spice, cinnamon, clove and light smoky notes. I’d call it a ‘pretty’ wine but that’s not PC. Let’s call it elegant instead. One to savour.
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.
