Chapel Hill The Devil Shiraz 2022
- 98
- $180
- Drink by: 2026-2051
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This is yet another expression of what turned out to be a mighty fine vintage in South Australia. In this case, it comes from McLaren Vale, and it was treated with kid gloves from the start, hand-harvested and then open-fermented and hand-plunged before basket pressing and then spending twenty months in French oak hogsheads. It’s a wine of immense elegance and style, seamlessly integrated with a fine chalky thread of tannin that really does support the structure. Slightly plummy dark cherry aromas and a light cedary oak input. The palate weight is quite beautiful. It’s full-bodied, yet there is poise and, dare I say it, a touch of panache. Stylish and elegant with a seamless integration of fine tannins, almost lyrically laid oak and that wonderful depth of concentrated fruit.
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.
