Water Wheel 5 Rounds Baringhup Shiraz 2023
- 89
- $25
- Drink by: 2025-2032
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5 Rounds? Makes sense when you learn that it refers to four years of challenging vintage conditions and life on the land for the winemakers, but they are “baring up” and back on top. This Shiraz speaks of its home at Bridgewater-on-Loddon – of gum leaves, Aussie bush and earth aromas with dark fruits dressed in chocolate and plenty of oak spice. Not shy in the least with oak to the fore and an inherent richness of dark berry fruits plays across the warm textural palate with eucalyptus, earth, tar, leather, coconut and spice. It’s ready for the next barbecue or meaty casserole.
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.
