Zonte’s Footstep Nature’s Crux Shiraz 2022
- 91
- $35
- Drink by: 2023-2032
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Works the ample but medium-bodied style of Shiraz with some class. Plenty of black olive savoury notes and dark chocolate aromas mixed with blackberry fruit, spice and earth – there’s plenty of fruit action here. Rolls out with a good depth of solid flavour, almost plush, filling the mouth in fruit and a light gamey savouriness and smoky char with briar, bramble, blackberry and sage leading the way. Sourced from the Fleurieu, it offers a well-rounded, flavoursome and smooth Shiraz, modest in alcohol (12.5%) and medium in body, that reflects well on its home in a cool, maritime-influenced wine zone.
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.
