Taltarni Old Vine Estate Shiraz 2020
- 93
- $50
- Drink by: 2023-2040
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From the original 1960s plantings, wines like this make you wonder why the Pyrenees isn’t more widely known as a premium wine region. Newly released with a few years of age, the wine is showing a lovely balance of black cherries, gorgeous oak spice – nutmeg and cloves, against a background of old school ’Soft Eating Licorice’ and hint of roasted meat and earth. In the mouth there is loads of intensely concentrated, dense, black, dark, juicy fruit. It’s rich and silky with plenty of round, ripe tannins that urge you to buy a few extra for the cellar.
Nicole loves wine. So much so that she gave up a successful career in Pharmacy, perfected her spitting technique, and moved from sunny Queensland to the wine-drenched laneways of Melbourne. Stints in hospitality, wineries, retail, sales and marketing filled the next few years while Nicole built her knowledge and searched for the right path. She completed the Wine and Spirits Education Trust (WSET) Diploma in 2016 and became a certified WSET Educator the following year. She now juggles a number of roles including teaching people about wine, curating wines lists for restaurants and bars, judging in Australian wine shows and, of course, writing. In 2016 she won the Negociants Working With Wine writing award and has since contributed to Gourmet Traveller WINE, Halliday Wine Companion Magazine and Nourish Magazine.
