Curtis Small Batch McLaren Vale Grenache Shiraz 2022
- 96
- $80
- Drink by: 2026-2038
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What a plush, generous, yet poised and refined Grenache Shiraz this is. The high-end florals and red fruit notes of the Grenache sit comfortably over the richer plummy and slightly earthy notes of the Shiraz. It was a good season in McLaren Vale, and it’s been captured quite beautifully with this smooth and elegant wine. Floral, earthy notes on the nose with some nice red berry lift, a little rose petal, and then a supple, generous, and thoroughly scrumptious palate, delivering plush ripe fruits held with a fine minerally acidity, a little spice and dried herb, and plenty of panache that expresses the style.
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.
