Welland Valley & Valley Barossa Shiraz 2023
- 91
- $30
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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Starts with an inviting – and brilliant – purple colour, followed by wave after wave of equally inviting regional Barossa aromas. Blackberry, purple and blue fruits, chocolate, cedary oak and loads of spice. It’s very Barossa. Fruit has been sourced from growers in both the Barossa hills and the valley floor, an interweaving of textures and flavours that works well here, especially with the smart use of oak, it’s discreet but does a fine job. Supple tannins make for a smooth, all round drinkability with the opportunity for further short- term cellaring.
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.
