Wine X Sam The Butterfly Effect Shiraz 2024

A dark, sweet fruited shiraz boasting an approachable, easy drinking attitude. Fruit was sourced from across four Victorian wine regions with individual components fermented separately, followed by maturation in a mix of seasoned oak and stainless steel tanks before blending  Dark red-crimson hues. Fragrant in aroma featuring concentration in dark plum, black cherry fruits, liquorice, gentle earthy notes and swirling brown spices. The palate is supple and smooth with sweet, dark berried fruits mixing it up with bright, red fruited flavours, chocolate, liquorice, hints of dried herbs and spice. They arrive nicely framed in juicy, fine tannins. Features a long thread of spice through the finish. Well balanced, medium bodied and hitting well above its price point, it is drinking deliciously now and has enough still in reserve to warrant short term ageing.

Jeni Port

Wine critic at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic