Tierra del Puerco Barossa Valley Tirzah The Malbec 2021
- 93
- $25
- Drink by: 2022-2028
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No problem with colour here. Deep, deep purple. No problem either with fruit intensity and the grape’s naturally gifted floral and herb notes, including an Aussie bush character that, with just one sniff, places you almost in the vineyard. Cuttings of Shiraz were taken from Wendouree in the Clare Valley, so the viticulturist, John Lienert, and his winemaker brother, James Lienert, are in good hands here. A core of lovely fruit – black cherry, plum, sage, anise, bush mint – shines in this wine topped with woody spices, dried herbs and chocolate. A fine but firm tannin presence opens the opportunity for further ageing. All of this for $25 a bottle is mighty good value.
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.
