St. Hallett Sacred Ground Shiraz 2022
- 91
- $95
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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Nice name and it resonates so well with Barossa Shiraz. The Barossa is indeed sacred ground for the variety. Expectations regarding both the variety and the region are changing, as are the styles. This is one finely tuned example revealing the grape’s spicier side in a medium-bodied young red that isn’t too bold. Red fruits, blueberries and integrated baking spices mix with some attractive herbal and acacia notes and earth. There’s in fact a real earthiness to the wines, an attractive feature to be sure, with pockets of aniseed and chocolate against a well-structured mesh of tannins. Finishes dry and not particularly long, but the flavour has already made its mark.
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.
