Wynns Coonawarra Estate Michael Coonawarra Shiraz 2022
- 95
- $150
- Drink by: 2025-2042
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Coonawarra Shiraz stands tall with each release of Michael Shiraz. The style has changed significantly over the years, becoming more elegant, less austere. A hard act to follow from the excellent ’21 but ‘22, with its cool nights and extended ripening, has delivered a lovely, focused young Shiraz. There’s a vibrancy here, an energy emerging which will put Michael in good stead as it ages further. Dark purple hues. Tight-knit, concentrated aromas in blackberry, dark plum, bramble, liquorice, red earth. Introduces a light, black olive savouriness across the palate as black and red fruits combine with spice, but the focus remains firmly tannin bound and tight as a drum with a strong phenolic grip to close. Get the cellar ready.
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.
