Charles Melton Grains of Paradise 2022

  • 96
  • $95
  • Drink by: 2025-2035

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A marvelous example of how the Barossa, with all its power and opulence, can be presented with poise and elegance. This wine combines fruit from Lyndoch and Melton’s Kirsch Vineyard in Krondorf. It was matured for 24 months in a half-and-half split of French and American oak, with about 30% new. There’s a lovely textured, sweet plumpness, yet it is held with control and poise. The palate is juicy and delicious without ever feeling overdone, smooth, effortless, and easy. In many ways atypical of the Barossa, and in many ways very good.

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: Other, Specialty
Categories: Drinks, Australian Wines