Chateau Yaldara Parishes Eden Valley Shiraz 2020

  • 96
  • $180
  • Drink by: 2024-2044

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From the opening salvo on the nose, you know you’re in serious territory. Comes from a single vineyard in the Eden Valley, with dense almost opaque colours of dark red and deep crimson. The nose delivers a power-packed hit of dark plummy blackberry fruits laced with dark chocolate and a touch of prune juice. The palate then picks up with the American and French oak combination harnessing the powerful fruit. Tannins are slightly chalky bringing excellent structural integrity. With all that it still delivers with a smooth effortless palate.

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
Date
Variety: Red Wine, Shiraz
Categories: Drinks, Australian Wines