Chapel Hill The Devil House Block Shiraz 2020
- 98
- $180
- Drink by: 2024-2044
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This is a new release from Chapel Hill to mark the 50th anniversary of this outstanding McLaren vale producer. The name comes from the ‘devil is in the detail’ line that reflects winemakers Michael Fragos’s and Bryn Richards’s approach to the vineyard and the winery. The small House Block is the oldest on the property and during the past 10 years its 0.8 hectares have been a focus of improvement to realise their great potential. The block itself sits on soils that are 550 million years old…wow. It is a fabulous wine that captures so much of this great region, expressed with such poise and grace. Seductive aromas of florals with savoury influences and traces of dried herbs. The palate has a grainy almost gravelly feel with the fruit held tightly, but with finesse by the mix of chalky tannins and super fine-grained oak. The colour is brilliant, and the wine exudes vibrance and vitality. Super stuff.
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.
