Hewitson Barrel 1853 2020
- 98
- $450
- Drink by: 2023-2048
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This is a single barrel made by an equal blend of Monopole Shiraz and Old Garden Mourvèdre, assembled after each spent 20 months in oak. It is quite extraordinary, not just because the wine is so damned good, but because of its link to the earliest days of grape growing in the Barossa Valley. It’s fragrant and perfumed with slightly confectionery notes overlaying the spicy plummy red fruit mix on the nose. Has a decent oak influence but fruit of such concentration and power needs it. And it has many years in it, although I could drink plenty of this now.
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.
