Days and Daze Freethinker Shiraz 2023
- 90
- $22
- Drink by: 2026-2031
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This is a rather delicious light to medium-bodied Shiraz made organically with minimal intervention and designed with vegans in mind. It’s loaded with nice juicy ripe fruits, albeit presented with restraint and quite beautifully balanced. The tannins are quite fine and subdued, yet they still play a role, but it is the dominance of the fruit that is most profound. It’s a wine that you just want to sit down with and enjoy. And if you need to, you could whack it in the fridge for a little while, certainly in the warmer months, and it would handle it quite beautifully.
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.
