Chapel Hill The Vicar Shiraz 2020
- 96
- $85
- Drink by: 2023-2048
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Opens with a thoroughly beautiful aroma of plum and prune with a lift of violet. Beneath you find other notes of licorice and mocha. The palate is firm and opulent with a tight core of tannin and tightly grained oak, yet the sweet fruit of McLaren Vale Shiraz gradually reveals itself. The aim is clearly to capture and not compromise the sweet, delicious characters of McLaren Vale fruit, adopting a largely gentle winemaking approach before it heads to oak for 22 months.
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.
