The Lane The Southerly Shiraz 2021

Deep crimson and a brooding nose to match – forest fruits, cracked black pepper, salted plum, red licorice straps with hints of star anise and iodine. It’s Shiraz and it’s juicy. Sweet fruit at the fore – a medley of blackberries and mulberries. Vanilla and cracked pepper on the midpalate layered with slightly green but gauze-like tannins. This is a weekday wine with no qualms. In a way it’s ironic, we fixate on ‘special occasion’ wines but speaking as someone in the midst of a renovation, who has recently discovered mice in her pantry, the weekday wine can be just as important. Don’t over think it – you deserve this.

Tijana Laganin

Director at Winepilot

Tijana is on a mission to take the intimidation out of wine. With a background in sales and marketing, she furthered her studies to complete WSET Levels 2 and 3. An advocate for chardonnay, she plans to use her position as Deputy Chair for Wine Communicators SA Chapter to break the ABC (Anything But Chardonnay) stigma. If sentenced to death, her last meal would be freshly baked bread and salted butter paired with a glass of the best wine in the world - chardonnay of course.

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