1847 Winery Grand Pappy’s Shiraz 2022
- 97
- $320
- Drink by: 2026-2051
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I’ve seen a few of these wines over the years, and I must say this is as good as any yet released. It’s from the Barossa and the Eastern Ranges, off mature, very low-yielding vines. It’s a wine that captures the power and richness of the Barossa but expresses it in a way that is more refined and elegant than you might expect. The fruit is rich, with great depth and complexity, and the wine was matured for 24 months in predominantly new and second-fill American oak, with a little new French oak added to give it a nice lift. It strikes immediately with a complex and engaging mix of dark fruits on the nose, along with a little coffee grounds, dark chocolate, some rustic earthiness, and deep blackberry and dark plum characters. The palate is deep and concentrated, with outstanding balance. It’s multi-layered and seamlessly integrated, with great cellaring potential.
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.
