Burge Family Winemakers Barrel Selection Shiraz 2022
- 95
- $350
- Drink by: 2026-2046
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The 2022 vintage in the Barossa turned out to be mighty good, and this is yet another example of what was being produced. As the name suggests, it was a selection of the best barrels from a number of vineyards throughout the Barossa. A striking feature is its elegance and refinement through the palate. On the nose, you’re getting those fairly typical vanillin, plummy, spicy notes. But then the palate delivers its cache of fruit, oak, and tannin into a delightfully poised and focused long finish. That touch of vanillin oak adds a balancing touch. An excellent wine.
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.
