Barton Rise and Barton View Old Vine Shiraz 2018
- 96
- $150
- Drink by: 2025-2045
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The 2018 vintage seemed to produce great wine wherever you went. This wine shows all the benefits of keeping those old Barossa vines active. The colour is deep with dark, inky black red notes. On the nose, it surprisingly shows more bright red fruits with notes of raspberry merging with more typical blackberry nuances. Dark chocolate, mocha, savoury plum, and a slightly rustic, earthy nuance bring complexity and rich intensity to the palate. It expresses the fruit with a degree of elegance and restraint, losing nothing in the power of the fruit. It’s already showing a layered complexity and has many years ahead of it as it evolves into something special.
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.
