Terre à Terre Crayères Vineyard Cabernet Shiraz 2023

Cabernet Sauvignon (65%) takes the lead and with it comes some firm, structural tannins – a Cabernet speciality – nicely interwoven with ripe fruit. It’s a multi-layered approach with layers of taut, firm tannins and herbaceous undergrowth and spices and fruit. Wrattonbully can’t help but bring some of its regional character to the wine – we should expect no less – and as a sister to Coonawarra it’s an earthy, peppery, Aussie bush character that speaks of the terra rossa soil and the immediate environment. Cassis, black fruits, juniper, crushed herbs and spice aromas. Springs to life on the palate in plum, blueberry and black fruits, chocolate and, in almost equal measure, herbs and spices, all the while held steady by firm, reliable tannins.

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