Pirathon ‘Silver’ Shiraz 2017
- 91
- $26
- Drink by: 2020 - 2025
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A powerfully persuasive argument on what it is we like about bold Barossa shiraz. First, it looks tempting, deeply coloured with good concentration. Second, its aromas feed the imagination with dark berry, spice, forest floor all in great harmony. And third, flavours are intense offering a big mouthful of wine that is velvety, ripe fruited and long, the fruit moving from blackberry, licorice, dark chocolate and leather to baked earth.
In comparison to the 2018, also available, this is a more muscular tannic example of the style which is on the high side alcohol-wise (15%). It’s a pretty intense tasting experience.
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.
