Yelland & Papps Barossa Valley Cinsault 2022
- 92
- $43
- Drink by: 2023-2030
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Cinsault is a grape ripe for our times. It hails from the Languedoc-Roussillon and laps up the heat. For a long time, it has enjoyed a home in the Barossa as a blender, but maybe not anymore. This youngster is way too good, too delicious to be anything but a stand-alone treat. Rises in blue fruits, mulberry, cherry with a delightful sprinkle of spice and just a splash of pepper. Seems light and super fresh but first impressions can be deceptive. There is good weight and flavour intensity behind all of that delightful blue and red fruited façade. It boasts a higher vinous IQ than an immediate introduction reveals with lingering tannins and good structure. Substance, length and flavour – this is one smart wine.
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.
