Yelland & Papps Limited Cuvée Shiraz 2019
- 95
- $92
- Drink by: 2024-2031
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There is a distinct contrast between the 2018 and the 2019 Shiraz. Where the ’18 is a little more old school Barossa – dense, concentrated, oak-fuelled – the ’19 bursts in energy and brightness. Is this the role of vintage or youth? Either way, both wines bring something to the glass. Here, we see black cherries, plum, earth and the liveliest of spices bringing impressive intensity of Shiraz flavour. The wine has real presence, bright in fruit, medium bodied, fine, dense tannins and a lovely textural allure. It makes for highly enjoyable drinking right now, but also has undoubted further ageing ability – the best of both worlds.
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.
