Pyren Vineyard Earthscape Shiraz 2022
- 92
- $50
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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A welcoming, juicy, bright and zippy young Shiraz with plenty of personality. Moves fast and easy, pleasing the palate on all fronts while holding more than enough in reserve for years down the track. Black pepper, blueberry, bramble, ripe black berries and a gentle spice rise from the glass. While there is obvious youth to be enjoyed here, there is depth, too. That’s where it gets serious. Earth, herbals, vanilla and peppery-spice wind their way around and through black and red cherry fruits. There’s a hint of something exotic at work, too, a touch of cured meats, wood smoke. Tannins perform their role discreetly but firmly. It all adds up to a pretty impressive youngster. One to wait and watch, if you can.
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.
