Hewitson Cask 66 Shiraz 2024
- 98
- $450
- Drink by: 2026-2046
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Well, I had a suspicion this wine was going to be pretty damn good coming from what was a wonderful season in the Barossa. And to say that it hasn’t disappointed is a supreme understatement. It comes from a barrel selection just before bottling, so what you’re getting is the best of the best. Highly scented aromas of red fruits and plum, with a little raspberry-strawberry combination. The palate is quite sublime. It’s smooth, it’s effortless, it’s integrated, and it powers through to a sustained finish with so much ease. This is class and polish, and it’s a wine that is so well-structured and put together now that you can certainly enjoy it in the short term. But of course, its greatness will be exemplified with further aging.
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.
