Gralyn Estate Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2013
- 96
- $120
- Drink by: 2022-2040
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Like a few 2013 vintage Margaret River wines I have been fortunate to taste recently, this one is moving with purpose into a new stage of refinement and development. In reality it has hardly started its journey and is showing remarkable youthfulness. There is a degree of understatement about this outstanding cabernet that I find really appealing. The fruit is intense but not overpowering. It sits beautifully on the palate and with the chalky tannins and fine-grained oak builds inexorably to a very long finish. The perfumed aromas are deliciously seductive showing just what this vineyard is capable of.
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.
