Greenock Creek Vineyard and Cellars Third Estate Shiraz 2021
- 95
- $90
- Drink by: 2026-2051
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There’s one thing you get with Greenock Creek, and that’s power and deep flavour intensity, and this one has it in spades. The colour is almost inky black with faint hints of red. This one comes from a single block up on the highest point of Moppa Vineyards in the northwest corner of the valley. Dark black fruits emerge on the nose, while the palate continues that thread with black currant, dark plum, and a slight sweet blackberry note. Tannins are firm, the oak substantial, yet it all consumes into a single entity that releases to a sustained long finish. These wines really benefit from some extended time in the cellar.
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.
