Pepper Tree Strandlines Single Vineyard Cabernet Shiraz 2019
- 94
- $60
- Drink by: 2021-2034
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Cabernet shiraz, the ultimate Aussie red blend, is going through a bit of a purple patch. The blend can have numerous personalities from simple and yummy with no expectations other than deliciousness to way more complex, delivered with serious intent. File Standlines in the latter category. Actually, make that serious with grunt. It makes a lot of sense when you see that Peppertree plans to release this wine in June, 2022. Fruit and oak are rubbing shoulders with grippy tannins at the moment. All three will no doubt have cosied up by the time of release. Cabernet takes the lead on the bouquet with penetrating black berries, leafy herbals, tilled earth and savoury aromas. It settles in comfortably with shiraz on the palate introducing more earthiness and briar with mint and a touch of aniseed, taking its time to come together.
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.
