The Lane Vineyard LDR Adelaide Hills 2025
- 92
- $30
- Drink by: 2026-2030
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LDR – Light Dry Red – is a blend of Pinot Noir and Shiraz and, almost true to name, is a light-ish dry red that comes with quite a surprising level of weight and substance. Aromas of cherry, black berries, blueberry with lifted violet florals, gentle woody spices and earth. That earthiness runs a little deeper on the palate with additional lines of leaf and dried autumnal notes. The varietal mix works well, each variety bringing something to the whole with the added touch of cool climate Shiraz spiciness contributing a rousing pepperiness. The producer may need to seek out another name because while it is undoubtedly vibrant and energetic and medium bodied, it is also seriously good.
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.
