Castelli Single Vineyard Frankland River Malbec 2022

  • 95
  • $60
  • Drink by: 2025-2035

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This comes from the famous Justin vineyard in Frankland River. When you get a good year like this the wines really soar. Engaging aromas of plum and rhubarb complete with a little pastry crumble. The palate is soft and malleable with plush red fruits interspersed with fine tannins and lyrically laid oak. There’s just a touch of ironstone on the finish adding further to its complexity.

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.

Wine writing
Pilot
Ray Jordan
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Variety: Red Wine, Malbec
Categories: Drinks, Australian Wines