Felice Barossa Valley Shiraz 2022
- 96
- $200
- Drink by: 2025-2045
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This excellent wine comes from right in the heart of Marananga, from vines that are now more than 100 years old. It picks up a lot of the characters of this excellent sub-region in the Barossa. There’s a hint of ironstone and dusty earth, complementing the delicious, full and generous fruit flavours. Loads of plum, licorice, dark chocolate, some dried herbs and that little bit of minerality provide tremendous complexity and interest. Yet it remains seamlessly structured and presented with silky fine tannins and fine-grain oak, really pulling it all together. It’s a pretty smart 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.
