Curtis Family Vineyards Octavian Shiraz 2022
- 97
- $500
- Drink by: 2026-2051
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The fruit for this excellent wine is picked by hand and then processed through small batches. And then the real influence starts with 36 months ageing in French oak. Sure, the oak is evident, but clearly the fruit has taken it in with ease, so it certainly doesn’t express as overtly oaky. In fact, there is a silky fine elegance about this, with its soft, plush middle palate, dense fruit and multilayered complexity. Dark chocolate, black fruits, cherry liqueur – it’s all in there, but it’s pulled together with refinement. Excellent wine.
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.
