Greenock Estate Wines GE Barossa Shiraz 2015
- 97
- $480
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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This is an intensely powerful and concentrated expression of Barossa Shiraz. At ten years of age, it is only just starting to reveal all that’s hidden within. It’s a full-bodied wine of immense generosity, and on the nose there’s a mix of ripe raisiny fruitcake, dark plum and loads of rich black fruits. The palate is seamlessly integrated, and there’s a gentle suppleness about it, although there is a deep and lingering intensity that is very much the Barossa DNA. The tannins are neatly integrated while the oak well-managed. It seems to gather momentum through the palate as it drives with relentless purpose through to a sustained lingering finish. This is Barossa Shiraz delivered in a classic way and just a touch of refinement as the final fling. 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.
