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Brokenwood Graveyard Vineyard Shiraz 2023

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This is one of Australia’s most famous Shiraz. It comes off extremely low-yielding 55-year-old Hunter Valley vines and consistently produces wines of extraordinary depth, power but ultimately wonderful refinement. The colour is a deep red with lifted crimson purple hues, the first hint of its brightness and energy. On the nose, you capture the earthy plummy red fruits of the Hunter, and then on the palate, it all starts to reveal itself. Somehow it captures all the complexities of the red fruits, the chalky tannins, the finely applied oak and that lift of subtle earthy spiciness. There’s a brilliance and brightness here with the red fruits starting to dominate as it extends through to its extraordinarily long finish. These are wines with tremendous cellaring potential. This is one of the best I’ve seen at such an early stage in its development. A cracking wine worth every cent.

Ray Jordan

Wine critic, author and journalist at Winepilot

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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