Five Red Path Path Three Clare Valley Shiraz Cabernet 2025
- 94
- $80
- Drink by: 2026-2036
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These blends out of the Clare Valley really do excel, and this Shiraz-dominant wine has some quite beautiful characters about it. A mix of plummy blackcurrant on the nose. A little vanilla essence and licorice. And then a palate that runs deep and long with a chalky, firmish tannin structure supporting the plush, generous fruit flavours. Impeccably balanced and poised, it’s a wine that is so appealing now, but it does have the structure and the fruit intensity to handle cellaring.
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.
