Seppelt St. Peters Grampians Shiraz 2020
- 95
- $80
- Drink by: 2022-2038
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Former Wolf Blass winemaker, Clare Dry, underwent a baptism of fire when she started at Seppelt in late 2020. Her first job was to blend the company’s flagship red, St. Peters Shiraz. The wine was made by Adam Carnaby, but the final taste and shape of the wine shows Clare’s touch. It’s unusually open for a St. Peters – it’s a style that can be closed and in need of a decanter at this early stage – and this vintage is ready to reveal a wealth of black berry, black cherry, anise, black olive savoury notes, briar and earth. At its heart is a core of concentrated fruit power with generous cedar oak that has been slurped up. Oak is not intrusive, but it is certainly noted. Tannins are ripe and even handed. As always, St. Peters is worthy of extended time in the cellar.
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.
