Yelland & Papps Barossa Valley Shiraz 2023
- 88
- $32
- Drink by: 2024-2028
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“Gently pushing the boundaries of our winemaking world,” is how Yelland & Papps describes this series of new $32 releases. Whole cluster, whole berry ferments are employed, and with a high level of earthy savouriness bordering on the funky, consider the boundary pushed with this 2023 Shiraz. Amid the flurry of black fruits and background spice is a world of wet earth, fungal and undergrowth to explore. A few swishes of air will help open up the wine, remember it’s a youngster still, and it will clean up the blunt edges.
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.
