Heirloom Vineyards King’s Garden Barossa Valley Shiraz 2021
- 95
- $100
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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This wine is sourced from some of the best vineyards in the Barossa from a superb year. It’s perfect for drinking in the short to medium term but has everything you would expect from a wine to sell. Surprisingly medium-bodied, it has a deep concentrated fruit richness within the palate. The colour is a blackish reddy purple, and the nose picks up nuances of plums, dark cherry, spicy nutmeg characters, olive tapenade, and fragrant florals. The super concentrated palate has deep dark fruit with vibrant blackberry and plummy notes typical of Barossa Shiraz. It’s a balanced and poised wine, providing a delightful example of both the vintage and a modern statement of the Barossa.
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.
