Cape Barren The Vale Shiraz 2018
- 95
- $150
- Drink by: 2024-2039
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The beauty of this wonderful vintage reveals itself on the nose and palate. It is a sumptuous rich and lavishly presented wine of tremendous concentration and power. The nose is an engaging combination of blackberry and subtle confectionery jubey raspberry. The palate has absorbed the mix of French and American oaks adding further layered complexity. Supremely well balanced with a seamless integration of oak, fruit and fine silky tannins.
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.
