Skuttlebutt Shiraz Cabernet Sauvignon 2023
- 90
- $22
- Drink by: 2026-2029
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The price point is spot on for affordable everyday drinking. So, too, the classic Aussie red blend with its approachability and with a noteworthy tannin presence, it’s a wine that can take time out at the table. It’s not shy. Black cherry, plum, earth, leaves, sage and wild herbs fill the aroma. Cabernet seems to be an almost equal partner with the emergence of a strong herbal thread amid the cherry-plum fruits and spices. A marked, herbal-edged quality is there on the finish with acacia, briar and leaf.
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.
