Atze’s Corner Giant Single Vineyard Barossa Valley Durif 2022
- 93
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2034
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Durif tends to be a variety that likes plenty of warmth, and it needs to get fully ripe to display the full range of its aromas and palate flavours. This comes up from Koonunga in the north and comes off a vineyard that is relatively low yielding but correspondingly delivers intense, concentrated fruit. It’s full-bodied with all of those dark blackberry fruits and a slightly ironstone edge to it. The palate is smooth and seamlessly structured. It has none of the excessive heat that you can often get with this variety, and the tannins have been well managed. It’s an interesting wine and certainly worth a look.
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.
