Frankland Estate Olmo’s Reward 2020
- 97
- $85
- Drink by: 2023-2038
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This is a blend of 78% Cabernet Franc with small contributions from Mourvèdre, Cabernet Sauvignon and Malbec. Opens with a delightful fragrance of red berry, violet and subtle dried herbs. It’s so immediately complex and engaging. The palate is bright and brilliant delivering on a medium bodied elegant stylish palate but with so much poise and power. This was a very good year around the state and this is one of the better wines. In fact it is as good as any Olmo’s I have tasted. The finish has a slightly chalky ironstone character that completes an outstanding 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.
