Gralyn Estate Artizan
- 96
- $90/375ml
- Drink by: 2022-2042
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Ah, I do love liqueur muscat when it’s done well combining age and well managed freshness. This is a remarkable example of a classic old muscat dominant fortified wine with so much deep luscious fruit intensity. The average age is about 20 years which means a lot of this material would be a good deal older. Deep and persistent palate with complex spices, fruit cake and honey characters. There’s butterscotch and super rich mum’s fruitcake. Multi-layered and deeply intense and rich, it is a luxurious glimpse of what we used to drink.
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.
