Step By Step The Larrikin Shiraz 2019
- 90
- $15
- Drink by: 2021 - 2025
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In Step By Step parlance, the 2019 shiraz is “the larrikin.” This is a little more relatable taste-wise. It’s a very open, approachable, no fuss South Australian shiraz. It’s also a generous 14.5% alcohol.
Great substance to this wine and a bit of charmer (as most larrikins tend to be). Plums, sweet berries, red and black cherry, spice, with a light sprinkling of dried flower-pot pourri. The florals are a real feature, lifting the wine and helping emphasise the fruit and aniseed and chocolate-flavoured rich palate.
This offers a fresh, energetic celebration of good shiraz fruit and hits above its price point.
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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.
