Taylors Limestone Coast Clare Valley Shiraz 2019

You’ve gotta love the fact that when you open a bottle of Taylors entry level shiraz you have a wine ready to go, the very essence of youthful vitality. And it’s the same story year in, year out. It hits the price point with a bang in the most assured manner.

Delightfully plummy and full of spice on the bouquet. Typically soft and plush in the mouth with black cherry, plums, chocolate and spice. Hints of a Cherry Ripe kind of confection, too, which few will baulk at. It then rises above its station in structure with firm tannins wrapped around the fruit. It’s a forward wine, highly approachable, too, which is in keeping with past performances and lingers deliciously before closing. It makes for a perfect pair with the estate riesling in that both rarely skip a beat.

Jeni Port

Wine critic at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic