Zonte’s Footstep Super Trooper Shiraz Cabernet 2019
- 91
- $30
- Drink by: 2023-2026
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Doesn’t share much in common with ABBA’s own Super Trouper hit song, but you have to admit the name is catchy. The wine is pretty catchy, too. Latch on to the full fruit sweetness with Shiraz shining all the way through and enjoy the ride. Aromas of ripe red and purple berry fruits here, a touch of leafy complexity and floral lift. Delicate savoury notes give an indication of what is to follow. The palate is driven by Cabernet’s steady reliable tannins with oak sitting nicely providing some of that gentle savouriness that filters through the wine. Juicy, tight and still in relatively youthful mode. It’s hit its straps and should be enjoyed with medium-term aging.
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.
