Riversdale Estate Syrah 2023
- 90
- $50
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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There’s something about this cool climate Shiraz that entices. It’s the pepper. It’s an integral part of the scent together with red fruits, crushed herbs, spearmint and just a whiff of bay leaf. It’s a little more pronounced on the palate, but I think it’s telling you about the lead into vintage with its cool, wet spring which led to reduced yields. This is a wine linear in style, firm in structure and coiled. It’s got time on its side. If opening soon, give it a good decant to let the pepperiness, herbs and spice open fully against the black cherry and plum fruits. I wouldn’t mind some more bottle age, too, in order to let it truly sing.
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.
