Greenock Estate Museum Reserve Shiraz 2018
- 96
- $480
- Drink by: 2025-2045
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Wow, this is Barossa Shiraz—it’s big, it’s bold, but there is a classy refinement here. The colour is deep reddy-black and almost opaque. On the nose, you get that wild mix of dark black fruits from the region: ripe plummy blackberry notes, a little licorice, mocha, coffee grinds, and a lifted perfume that floats from within. On the palate, the deep and concentrated fruit emerges, balanced with some fine oak. It’s an opulent, plush, and generous style of Shiraz that captures what was a very good year in the Barossa. Dark prune-like characters with plums, dark cherry, and some spicy savoriness as well, with that final richer dark chocolate coating completing what is an excellent wine.
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.
