Riposte The Cutlass Shiraz 2024
- 93
- $30
- Drink by: 2026-2034
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There is a vibrancy of fruit, a brisk-ness of taut tannins, of movement to this wine that fits in well with its name. As such, after a taut start the longer the wine remained open, over three days, the more it became alive each day. There is an earthiness that brings a sense of place. So, too, the spice, the medium bodied nature of the wine, the cocoa notes, dark herbs and sage, the vanillin touches, the red liquorice in harmony with ripe black fruits, plum and black cherries, that brings a sense of cooler climate style shiraz to the glass. A serious Shiraz that will age well.
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.
