Geoff Merrill Bush Vine McLaren Vale Shiraz Grenache Mourvèdre 2019
- 94
- $28
- Drink by: 2025-2032
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This is a slightly more dominant Shiraz with a significant component of Grenache and a small amount of Mourvèdre completing this classic blend. It’s a rich and quite succulent wine with a slightly spicy lift. It’s medium-bodied but plush and seamless with a succulent richness in the middle palate. The oak has been astutely managed and sits with perfect integration as a slightly fine, bony character, which adds to its complexity. This is an excellent drinking wine now, and I prefer to tackle these wines with just a few years of bottle age on them.
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.
