Jacob’s Creek Reserve Shiraz 2023
- 94
- $19.99
- Drink by: 2026-2033
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There are few more famous names in Australian wine than Jacob’s Creek. And this is the Reserve expression, which elevates the more traditional, ubiquitous Jacob’s Creek Shiraz into a slightly headier zone. Lots of ripe, delicious, succulent fruit here, with full- to medium-bodied weight a feature. Love the dark blackberry, plummy mix on the nose. And then the palate, which has a juicy suppleness about it, delivering succulent fruit through to its long finish. Drinking absolutely beautifully now, but a few extra years of cellaring time would add additional complexity and intrigue. Really nice 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.
