Wild Ren Shiraz 2022
- 91
- $40
- Drink by: 2023-2030
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In 2022, the winemaker turned to the Hilltops region as a partner for its Hunter Shiraz. The mood definitely turns bright and bouncy with Hilltops in the blend. There’s an explosion of red berries, black cherries and plum. The appearance of herbs plays a pivotal role – rosemary and thyme – as does the contrasting contribution of a solid earthiness and peppery lift. The 2022 is in total contrast to the 2021 Shiraz which blended McLaren Vale and Hunter fruit together. The ’21 is dark, plush and suave while the ’22 embraces a more dynamic energy thanks, in large part, to the pepperiness sprinkled throughout and those bright, firm, fine tannins.
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.
