Atze Opulent Shiraz 2022
- 94
- $25
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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This is another excellent wine from what was a very good vintage in the Barossa. It’s generous and, as the name suggests, opulently full-bodied. The nose has a slightly spicy, subtle black pepper character that sits over the deeper blackberry and plum notes. The palate, though full and rich, has been created with a degree of restraint and poise, so the wine is presented beautifully as it flows through to its sustained finish. Excellent contemporary expression of the Barossa Valley.
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.
