Saltram No.1 Shiraz 2021
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A top year and a top wine tend to go hand in hand. With Saltram No. 1, it’s all about weight, texture and a nicely developing complexity produced in this exceptional vintage. Fruit was sourced from a number of vineyards across the Barossa, and these days the wine sees an all French oak regime – no American – which translates into a more modern Barossa Shiraz interpretation. Dark cherries, black fruits and plums to the fore, sweet fruited and studded in woody spice with plenty of chocolate and anise in the background. There are sparks of salty black olive tapenade, a savoury influence. To the winemaker, those saline notes are “seasoning.” So, there’s plenty of seasoning here, too.
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.
