Tierra del Puerco Field Marshall Shiraz 2020
- 89
- $25
- Drink by: 2022-2028
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In the Tierra del Puerco range, many of the chosen names reference the names of pigs that the Lienert brothers as children grew up with. Apparently, Field Marshall was a prize porker. The introduction to the wine on the website is hugely entertaining with mentions of Chris Hemsworth, Brigitte Bardot among others and renditions of Careless Whisper played to just-picked Shiraz grapes by a saxophone player. Give it a read. But back to the wine in hand . . . it’s pretty tasty and sweet-fruited, very Barossa, against a background of earthy savouriness. Black fruits, stewed plums, dark chocolate, earth and spice all mingle freely. This is possibly the most Barossa-like of the Lienert reds, playing to expectations, until that edginess of Lienert tannin structure comes into view. The brothers actively work against our expectations of what a Barossa red might taste like. It’s quite refreshing.
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.
