Seppelt St. Peters Shiraz 2023
- 95
- $80
- Drink by: 2025-2038
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No longer a single vineyard wine, St. Peters remains sourced from Seppelt estate fruit. The ’23 reflects its cooler, wet vintage with a finer, more spice-enhanced personality while retaining its usual Shiraz dark fruited heart. Is it the role of whole bunches that brings that gorgeous spice? Whatever it is, it’s elevated and delightfully aromatic and peppery in tune with dark plums and berries, blueberry and chocolate. It’s a tribute to winemaker, Clare Dry, that the wine retains a real beauty in what was a difficult year and, with its usual tannic underlay, it’s going to age well.
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.
