Schubert Estate The Hatchling Shiraz 2022
- 93
- $40
- Drink by: 2026-2034
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The aromatics are turned up and it’s inviting to indulge in all those violets, bay leaves, pepper and spice. The aromatics lift the wine and blend in so well with its overall liveliness and freshness. Marananga fruit, off ancient rich red clay, ironstone gravels and sandy loam soils, has been at the heart of some of the Barossa Valley’s best-known wines. Deep purple-crimson hues. Fresh acidity enlivens the palate dense in plum, blueberry, earth, controlled warm toasty oak, leather, a mineral richness with spice and nicely trimmed in electric aromatics. Velvety smooth and fine textured through to the finish with tannins offering assured guidance.
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.
