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Ray Jordan

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.
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Xanadu Circa 77 Sauvignon Blanc Semillon 2024

You don’t normally get this level of wine-making involvement in a wine selling for this price. The key to its...
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Xanadu Circa 77 Shiraz 2023

It’s little wonder that a wine of this price is so good, given that it comes from this wonderful vintage...
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Xanadu Chardonnay 2024

It still strikes me as remarkable that a wine of this quality from Xanadu can be so inexpensive. I mean,...
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Wines by Nick and Goe Sangiovese Rosé 2025

Everything about this says Italian, and yet the wine comes from McLaren Vale, off the Di Fabio estate. This is...
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Di Fabio Winemaker’s Selection Cabernet Sauvignon Cabernet Franc Merlot 2017

This is a quasi-Bordeaux combination that’s working quite beautifully. It’s McLaren Vale sourced, and it’s got that extra time in...
DiFabioBushVineShiraz

Di Fabio Estate Bush Vine Reserve Shiraz 2016

This is a wine that retains quite a remarkable youthful vibrancy given that it’s already nine years old. Loads of...
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Di Fabio Estate Grand Reserve Shiraz 2021

Such a marvelous South Australian McLaren Vale vintage has been captured in this outstanding example of Shiraz from a great...

Di Fabio Winemaker’s Selection Tempranillo 2024

An excellent vintage has produced a thoroughly beautiful example of Tempranillo. It’s medium weight and displays all of the beautiful...

Di Fabio Winemaker’s Selection Montepulciano 2019

An Italian variety that seems ideally suited to McLaren Vale. This one’s now got six years of age to it,...

Château Tanunda Grand Barossa Dry Riesling 2025

As the name suggests, it’s a dry-as-chips Riesling, and yet the texture and fruit weight provide a palate that is...

Château Tanunda Heritage Series Dry Rosé

The colour is bright onion pink, with a tinge of copper. Bright strawberry and raspberry notes on the nose are...

Château Tanunda Grand Barossa Chardonnay 2024

This is a neatly constructed Barossa Chardonnay that delivers great value and good quality in a compelling combination. The aromas...
Hirsch Hill Reserve Pinot Noir

Hirsch Hill Reserve Pinot Noir 2024

Pale crimson and garnet colours tend to mask the fact that this is a mighty powerful Pinot Noir from the...
Hirsch Hill Reserve Chardonnay

Hirsch Hill Reserve Chardonnay 2024

Although only bottled a few weeks before tasting, this wine was showing remarkably well. It comes from the best block...
Delamere Estate PinotNoir

Delamere Vineyard Pinot Noir 2024

Here’s a Pinot that combines the latent power of this variety with elegance to create a beautifully stylish example. Typically...
Delamere Block PinotNoir

Delamere Vineyard Block Eight Pinot Noir 2023

This is the pinnacle of Delamere’s Pinots, and this is a wine that is only produced when the vintage works....
Delamere Flyleaf PinotGris

Delamere Flyleaf Pinot Gris 2025

There’s Pinot Gris, and then there’s this. It’s a most engaging example of the variety, and plenty of detail has...
Delamere FlyleafRose

Delamere Flyleaf Rosé 2025

Delamere has made some mighty impressive Rosé’s over the years, thanks in part to the quality of the fruit, but...
Delamere Flyleaf PinotNoir

Delamere Flyleaf Pinot Noir 2024

This is the first Pinot Delamere has made from fruit that was brought in. But clearly, they’ve chosen well, because...
Delamere Estate Chardonnay

Delamere Vineyard Estate Chardonnay 2024

Yet another impressive wine from Delamere, with handpicking, whole bunch pressing, and then ferment and maturation in Burgundian oak. The...
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Delamere Vineyard Block Three Chardonnay 2023

Although this was quite a challenging season, the wine has emerged as a triumph of good management and careful planning....
BREM NV SPECIAL MALBEC WEB

Bremerton Special Release Malbec 2023

Malbec has been a winner in Langhorne Creek, and this one captures the highly scented aroma of spices and African...
BREM NV COULTHARD CAB SAUV WEB

Bremerton Coulthard Cabernet Sauvignon 2023

Another of the Bremertons that is absolutely reliable. And year in and year out produces excellent value wines with a...
BREM NV SELKIRK SHIRAZ WEB

Bremerton Selkirk Shiraz 2022

Always one of the best value releases of the year. It is comfortably seated in the Langhorne Creek wheelhouse of...

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Hayes Family Wines

Hayes Family Wines is a relatively new name for the Barossa Valley, but its roots date back to the middle...

Elderton in Form

It’s one of those weird twists. The Barossa Valley is renowned for its shiraz and one of the best has...

A New Grenache Benchmark from the West

History may show that the Swinney Farvie Frankland River Grenache 2020 was the wine that redefined this variety in WA....
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