The Lane Provenance VP Fortified Shiraz 2022
- 90
- $80
- Drink by: 2023-2032
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A cool climate fortified vintage Shiraz is an uncommon sight, but you have to admire the courage of the winemakers’ convictions and the result. It’s early days – way too early as yet for opening – with emerging blackberry scents, anise, cherry liqueur and marzipan aromas. Fortified with a blend of aged and light brandy spirit and matured 16 months in French oak, it brings sweetness and spice to the palate in chocolate, panforte and liquorice notes, together with fine tannins. A clean spirit finish and a lasting spiciness with just a note of heat to close. Give it a good 10 years in bottle.
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.
