Yelland & Papps Limited Cuvée Shiraz 2018
- 92
- $92
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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Old vine Shiraz shows its class here. Colour is deep and intense. Hearty, ripe blackberry, dark plum fruit aplenty set the scene alongside baked earth, black liquorice, heady spices and chocolate. The palate is dense with solid fruit concentration. A noticeable level of woodsy oak is in play, but overall the power of the fruit manages it well. A spicy thread runs long through the wine, an enticing addition, before finishing with good length. Long, sturdy tannins support the wine, and give the drinker confidence in cellaring further.
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.
