Frankland Estate Isolation Ridge Syrah 2020
- 97
- $52
- Drink by: 2022-2032
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Small crop and small production, so this has to be on your shopping list. It is quite different from the syrah styles made ten years ago and reflects the heightened attention to improve the vineyard while exploring new clones. This one is largely the Houghton clone but there is also 42% clone 470 with the exciting clone 174 planned for later releases. The aromatics are heightened by the inclusion of viognier and mourvèdre. It is such a wonderfully fragrant and perfumed wine with that underlying regional ironstone character complementing. There is so much vibrancy and energy here – an exciting direction for Frankland Estate.
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.
