Frankland Estate Olmo’s Reward 2023
- 97
- $100
- Drink by: 2026-2046
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This wine, which honours the contribution of Professor Harold Olmo to the development of the modern Western Australian wine industry, is a combination of Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Malbec. This one comes from one of the great years in Frankland River. It’s medium-bodied with such wonderfully complex aromatics and flavours. High-end floral notes with a combination of red fruits and blackcurrant. And on the palate, the combination works impeccably with the brightness of the Franc, the structure of the Cabernet, and the voluminous fruit of the Malbec. It’s such a beautiful and exquisitely poised wine that is the ultimate in refinement and elegance.
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.
