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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.
Leconfield DGR NV

Leconfield Coonawarra DGR Cabernet Shiraz 2023

A stylish and delightfully elegant Cabernet blend from Coonawarra. The colour is deep and dark, and the nose immediately strikes...
BDX Wrattonbully

Briar Ridge BDX 2024

A Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot blend from Rat and Bully in the south of South Australia....
Briar Ridge Dairy Hill Shiraz Hunter Valley

Briar Ridge Dairy Hill Shiraz 2024

This is a quite beautiful example of Hunter Shiraz from a good season. Lovely bright florals on the nose combine...
Block Pinot Noir Orange

Briar Ridge Block Six Pinot Noir 2025

This is a small-quantity, single-vineyard wine from Orange in New South Wales. It’s a combination of three different clones. The...
Dairy Hill Semillon Hunter Valley

Briar Ridge Dairy Hills Semillon 2026

Hunter Semillon can be quite edgy in its youth, and yet this one manages to straddle the line between retaining...
Briar Ridge Stockhausen Hunter Valley Shiraz

Briar Ridge Stockhausen Shiraz 2025

A Shiraz that captures so much of the Hunter style. It’s typically medium-bodied, with bright red berry fruits and subtle...
Stockhausen Hunter Valley Semillon

Briar Ridge Stockhausen Semillon 2025

A wine that recognises and honours the significant contribution of one of the Hunter’s legendary winemakers, Karl Stockhausen. This is...
LG GAMAY NV No GI

Little Giant Gamay 2025

The famous variety of Beaujolais makes beautiful, light to medium-bodied wines for immediate drinking, but there is always a little...
Little Giant LB Montepulciano NV NS

Little Giant Little Batch Barossa Valley Montepulciano 2024

A variety that seems particularly well suited to the warmer climes of the Barossa Valley. This is a delightfully bright...
LG PNO

Little Giant Single Vineyard Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir 2025

Captures the essential elements of Pinot Noir from the Adelaide Hills. There is a lovely mix of plummy dark cherry...
Little Giant Remarkables yo

Little Giant Remarkables 50-year-old Vines Eden Valley Shiraz 2023

From a dry-grown vineyard in the Eden Valley, where the fruit requires careful hand-picking, this is a wine made with...
Luccio Fiano

Pikes Clare Valley Lucio Fiano 2026

Fiano is an increasingly popular variety in Australia, and with wines like this, it’s not hard to see why. This...
The Assemblage

Pikes Clare Valley The Assemblage Grenache Shiraz Mourvèdre 2024

  A beautiful, soft, plush, medium-bodied blend from what was a very good vintage. Lifted, perfumed florals combine with raspberry...
Riesling The Merle Transparent

Pikes Clare Valley The Merle Riesling 2021

This one is released with five years of bottle age, but it’s hardly even begun its journey into the second...
The Merle Riesling

Pikes Clare Valley The Merle Riesling 2026

This is a wonderful example of Riesling in its purest, most pristine form. The aromas show a distinct pebbly, slate-like...
Riesling Traditionale Small

Pikes Clare Valley Riesling Traditional 2021

Here’s a Riesling from the Clare Valley with a little extra bottle age, and it’s just starting to show what...
Traditionale Riesling

Pikes Clare Valley Traditional Riesling 2026

There’s a racy, almost zingy character to this bright, high-energy Riesling. It’s quite light-bodied, but there’s tremendous fruit intensity. The...
Curtis Terra Rossa McLaren Vale Shiraz

Curtis Family Vineyards Terra Rossa Shiraz 2025

A highly concentrated McLaren Vale Shiraz, displaying the softness and generosity that you expect from a large part of this...
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Curtis Family Vineyards Limited Series Grenache 2022

This was such a sublime season in McLaren Vale, and it is wonderfully expressed in this superb Grenache. The aromas...
CFV heritage Shiraz

Curtis Family Vineyards Limited Series Shiraz 2022

Rich, dense, concentrated and powerful, yet there is a stylish, effortless understatement about this wine. On the nose, you get...
Estate Riesling

Pettavel Single Vineyard Riesling 2025

The colour is a bright, pale straw. There are some nice floral notes on the nose, with a slightly appley...
ESTATE CHARDONNAY

Pettavel Single Vineyard Chardonnay 2025

An engaging and complex wine becomes evident immediately on the nose. This one comes from the Yarra Valley. There’s a...
Old label ThreeElms Timbertops Riesling

Three Elms Timber Tops Riesling 2023

Here’s a wine that’s just starting to show some of the characters that come with a couple of years in...
Old label ThreeElms Timbertops Riesling

Three Elms Timber Tops Riesling 2021

This was quite a tight, coolish season, which produced some excellent conditions for Riesling in Frankland. This wine is still...

Stories

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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