Elderton Shiraz 2018
- 94
- $34
- Drink by: 2021 - 2031
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This is the partner to the cabernet and provides further evidence of the quality of this Barossa vintage. The winemaking approach has been all about preserving the fruit vibrancy and allowing it to express all that is appealing about the Barossa in a good year. The sweet fruit benefits from the clever use of American oak creating a profile that is elegant and stylish. It’s a bright and brilliant wine with real palate energy. I particularly loved the balance between the sweet vanillin character and that slightly spicy fruit. Drink it now and enjoy but if you can wait 10 or more years you will have something special.
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.
