Duke’s Vineyard The Duchess Pink 2021
- 90
- $35
- Drink by: 2023-2024
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This is a 100% Cabernet Sauvignon sparkling that Duke Ranson always wanted to make when he owned the winery. It was whole bunch pressed and then tiraged for 11 months. It has a creamy strawberry and red berry character, some hint of autolysis with nice palate texture and richness. It’s technically bone dry but there is a background of natural fruit sweetness. There is no dosage in this which is because of the natural fruit sweetness, providing a great balance.
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.
