Pimpernel Vineyards Whole Bunch Shiraz 2019

  • 92
  • $90
  • Drink by: 2024-2033

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The Pimpernel winemakers went in search of power and intensity. They found it. The role of 25% whole bunches with stems, cannot be dismissed here, after all, they feature in the wine’s name. Whole bunches can bring both fragrance, strength and tannin firmness to a wine. The scent is an immediate and obvious beneficiary: loganberry, bramble, black fruits, cedary dusty oak, undergrowth. A generous world of flavour awaits carrying smoked meats and savoury overtones, cigar box, cassis and ripe, black fruits and chocolate. This has boldness supported by chewy tannins, finishing long with a sweet, insistent dash of oak.

Jeni Port
Wine critic at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic
Pilot
Jeni Port
Date
Variety: Red Wine, Shiraz
Categories: Drinks, Australian Wines