RockBare Single Vineyard Shiraz 2017

  • 92
  • $40
  • Drink by: 2022-2034

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Said single vineyard hails from Marananga in the Barossa Valley. Located on the Valley floor with its full sun and rich soils, the sub-region is home to a big, full bodied kind of shiraz. It’s delivered here. RockBare isn’t afraid of oak, it rolls it out generously with the scent and flavour of new leather, mushroom, undergrowth, damp soil. Studded in among the savoury notes are lashings of just-picked blue and purple fruits, spice. Tannins are robust, framing the wine well. It’s quite an attractive vinous picture and a different interpretation of shiraz courtesy of the Marananga sub-region.

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