Charles Melton Voices of Angels
- 96
- $95
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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Sourced from a cool climate site in the Adelaide Hills, a region that consistently produces the most stylish expressions of Shiraz. Aged for 36 months in all French oak, mostly puncheons, 80% new, yet the oak is never overbearing. Aromas of spicy blackcurrant and subtle cherry are complemented by cedary spice and a sense of speed. The palate delivers a thoroughly effortless, stylish, and refined finish, with great poise. Melton worked with the great Peter Lehmann, known for using a tiny amount of aromatic Muscat in his Shiraz, but in this case, Melton has continued to use about 2% Riesling. I don’t know if I can pick that up or not, but the wine is bloody marvelous.
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.
