Pimpernel Vineyards Grouch 2017
- 93
- $90
- Drink by: 2024-2031
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A co-ferment of Shiraz and Marsanne (up to 6%) with the latter playing a role that Viognier does in more traditionally minded blends. It offers an irresistible introduction with aromas rich and intense in black cherry, bramble, dark plum, sage, bay leaf, earth and woodsy undergrowth. It’s a wine of the soil, rustic in its earthy, sweet fruited notes and touch of savouriness. It works incredibly well, full bodied and textural, with oak a feature across the middle palate in league with a deep well of wild dark fruits and crushed herbs. Certainly on the riper side of the ledger at 14.5% but, being a great year, it carries it off with class.
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.
