1847 Winery First Pick Barossa Valley Shiraz 2022
- 97
- $480
- Drink by: 2026-2051
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The source for this wine is the south-facing slopes of the Lyndoch Valley. This is quite a cool part of the Barossa, so the wine exhibits certain cool-climate qualities. The first thing you notice is that the colour is lighter than you might expect from a Barossa Shiraz. The nose also has brighter, more floral aromas, with some nice spice and savoury elements. The oak treatment is mostly new and second-fill French oak, but there’s an important, smaller contribution of American oak, which adds mid-palate richness and complexity. About 10% Cabernet has also been added to the final blend, contributing to its structure. This is a most elegant and stylish Barossa Shiraz, with dominant blackberry and plum fruits and a little spicy, cedary lift from the oak. It’s elegant and stylish, concentrated, and has the structure to handle extended cellaring.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
