Warramunda Liv Zak Yarra Valley Malbec 2019
- 95
- $45
- Drink by: 2021 - 2030
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Malbec, now there’s a grape name you don’t see very often. At least, you don’t see it all by itself, taking centre stage and doing a wow job at it, too.
Bravo to the people at Liv Zak who have taken the decision to promote this grape and present it in such a fantastic vehicle, eschewing the influence of new oak and going with 15 months in seasoned French barrels. The wine sings.
It’s a lovely, smooth, textural and concentrated wine of some depth and impressive length. Yes, it has all the bases covered.
Pomegranate, Middle Eastern spice, raspberry, blackberry, touch of pepper aromas. A potent palate of wild berries, dark plums. So smooth with emerging complexity in its youth. The wine does the malbec grape proud.
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.
