Elderton Command Single Vineyard Shiraz 2023
- 96
- $150
- Drink by: 2026-2046
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This is a consistent trophy-winning wine that has performed exceptionally since the first release in 1984. It comes from a single block planted in 1894. This is one of the more elegant and finely balanced command Shiraz wines I’ve tasted, reflecting a cooler vintage. It opens with a burst of red fruits on the nose and subtle spicy nuances. Those red berry characters flow through the palate, joined by sweet and savoury spice and darker plummy tones. It spent 23 months in new French and American oak puncheons, yet the oak is admirably absorbed by the intensity of the old-vine fruit. A refined, stylish expression of this great 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.
