Schubert Estate The Lone Goose Shiraz 2018
- 91
- $90
- Drink by: 2024-2035
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A co-ferment of Shiraz and Viognier with the latter just a splash of three per cent. What does Viognier bring? That attractive deep red-purple colour glistens and catches the eye – that’s Viognier at work. Lots of everything on offer here which, it might be said, is the Schubert Estate way. Christmas cake, chocolate, dusty cocoa, black fruits, high spice, woodsmoke oak provide a rich and luscious, dense and chewy wine. Generous, robust tannins do their work, too. It’s another highly convincing big-hearted Barossa Shiraz, one of many from the Schubert Estate stable, that caresses rather than pummels.
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.
