Elderton Ode to Lorraine Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz Merlot 2022
- 96
- $60
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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The source of this excellent wine is the Elderton Nuriootpa vineyard, with vines that are now up to 128 years of age. This is a typically powerful wine but with an elegance that comes with this very good vintage. The aromas show traces of blackcurrant, bay leaf and a little olive tapenade with a slightly oyster shell minerality. The palate has a juicy feel with delicious, spicy fruits supported by fine tannins and a combination of new and seasoned French oak. A first rate 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.
