Curtis Family Vineyards Tiberius McLaren Vale Shiraz 2022
- 98
- $500
- Drink by: 2026-2051
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A plush, opulent, expressive McLaren Vale Shiraz displaying all the qualities that you might expect from this great region. Similar to Octavian, it spent 36 months in French oak before the best barrels are chosen. This is a wine of tremendous and intense fruit concentration, where despite the extended time in oak, it’s the fruit that really is the key. It’s effortless, almost elegant and so expressive. There’s a subtle brick dust character on the palate complementing the sweet ripe fruits. The tannins are precisely integrated, and the oak clearly well chosen to be fit for purpose in dealing with the fruit. Outstanding 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.
