The Lane Gathering Adelaide Hills Tempranillo 2025
- 92
- $55
- Drink by: 2026-2031
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Generous flavours, generous spiciness lives here surrounding attractive, herb-wrapped berries with just a hint of savouriness. Subtle it probably isn’t, but with that big mouthful of flavour it does get you thinking about food matches, maybe BBQ shredded beef – and that’s when the whole Spanish vibe of this wine comes into view. It is a Spanish kind of wine, full of life and down-to-earth generosity. Aromas of earth, dark liquorice, blueberry, cherry, cassis, cocoa, spice, sage and dried herbs. Palate is assertive, plush and juicy, rolling herbs and red liquorice spice and gathers pace – no pun, intended – with ripe fruits in tow and a sense of emerging black olives as it moves on fine tannins towards the finish.
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.
