Yering Station Carr Vineyard Shiraz 2021

The Carr Vineyard gives Yarra Valley Shiraz a good name. It’s a powerful collaboration to be sure, one that shows drinkers who might naturally reach for a glass of Cabernet or Pinot another notable Yarra Valley red grape worth exploring. This is one red fruited, spicy Shiraz with bounce and liveliness. It brightens up a glass. Black and red cherry, pomegranate, aniseed and pepper rise from the glass. To taste, it is the enduring peppery spice that claims your imagination and taste buds. It’s a real feature, revealing and celebrating the wine’s cool climate, single vineyard origin. Fine tannins keep control and provide structure. Its then keeps working through layers of flavour – chocolate, nutmeg, toasty char oak, spice, intense black fruit – through and through.

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