Elderton Helbig 1915 Shiraz 2018
- 97
- $350
- Drink by: 2021 - 2041
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This is from the Helbig vineyard that Elderton purchased in 2010. The vineyard is North East of Greenock and was planted by the Helbig family in 1915. This wine is thoroughly beautiful. It’s elegant, powerful and although it has high alcohol it is not hot or excessive. A slightly different winemaking approach has been taken with fermentation in 1500 litre French oak with the wine left on skins for 4 to 6 weeks. The fruit is so supple and concentrated but with sublime suppleness and velvety feel, balanced by a thread of chalky tannin. Very small production but well worth checking out.
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.
