Wolf Blass Platinum Label Barossa Valley Medlands Vineyard Shiraz 2021
- 95
- $200
- Drink by: 2023-2041
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The Medlands Vineyard is situated at Dorrien on ancient soils that form the Barossa Valley floor. It’s home to warm conditions well-suited to showcasing typically bold, plush Barossa shiraz. Platinum brings those Barossan qualities to the glass. It’s packed in fine detail, too, with a focused core of blood plum, mulberry, black fruits, dried herbs and cedary oak with background notes of earth, leather and the gentlest application of spice. Do not expect a big, chunky Shiraz, this is more streamlined and refined by what many might consider typical Barossa standards. Here, the role of fine tannins is emphasised, gracing, bracing the fruit and producing a lasting impression of some elegance. Has time on its side.
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.
