Bleasdale Mainsail Malbec 2022
- 96
- $99
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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This Langhorne Creek winery has made quite some statement with this variety since its first vintage in 1961. This is a new release to mark Bleasdale’s 175th anniversary. Impressive? You bet. The soft and generous style of this wonderful region is illustrated perfectly in this wine. Highly aromatic with red and black fruits dominant on the nose. The wine is exquisitely balanced with the fine chalky tannins and neatly judged oak adding support to some excellent fruit. It’s medium weight but there is deep concentration. Sure, drink it now, but time in the cellar would be well worth it.
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.
