Yabby Lake Mornington Peninsula Single Vineyard Syrah 2025

This Mornington Peninsula Syrah shows the region’s innate ability to produce depth and elegance with the grape. The same cool climate beauty the Peninsula brings to Pinot can be tasted here. Brings florals in lifted sweet violet to the aroma together with cherry, raspberry and plum fruit, white pepper, anise, herbs. It’s a full on liveliness of expression, super charged in peppery-laced spices and red berries, medium bodied and fine tannin-ed. The palate looks a little deeper with a cosy garden herbs and undergrowth character emerging, but the overall impression is of a just-picked kind of freshness carrying ripe berry fruits and spices long and deep across the middle palate through to the finish.

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