Stella Bella Margaret River Shiraz 2023
- 92
- $41
- Drink by: 2025-2029
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If a wine can be described as perky, this Shiraz fits the bill. Red fruits shine on the bouquet in plum, black cherry, loganberry and cassis with star anise, baking spices, earth and briar. It’s all there in a lovely display of bright, fresh – and perky – Margaret River Shiraz on the palate, finely structured and just a little restrained as a two-year-old. It’s got further ageing on its mind with tannins sinewy, earthy and still firm. There is less of the usual peppery spice but with time expect a fuller expression.
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.
