Schubert Estate Goose-Yard Block Shiraz 2016
- 91
- $100
- Drink by: 2022-2036
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The goose theme continues but the style takes a left turn here, venturing into savoury territory. From a top year in the Barossa, Goose-Yard lets it rip with super ripe fruit and leather, earth and tar notes. It’s a sturdy wine, solid in fruit and 15.5% alcohol, all of which are in keeping with the Schubert style. Brimming in black berries, dark plum, a hint of redcurrant with a delightful interplay of confection-like blackcurrant pastille. Chunky tannins are a touch prominent, hence, it earns silver and not gold but it remains a well-made wine. One for the cellar, if you fancy.
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.
