Jericho Single Vineyard Bracken Vineyard Shiraz 2023
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- Drink by: 2026-2036
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This captures the essence of this vineyard within McLaren Vale. It was made with wild yeasts in open, small fermenters, so it’s following a largely traditional technique. Interestingly, the oak is 60% new French for about 14 months, and yet you would hardly consider this excessively oaky. The fruit has absorbed it and allowed it simply to add to the overall profile and structural integrity. The tannins are fine and chalky, and the fruit weight perhaps more in the medium zone of red berries and spices. It has a nice leafy finish and is a comfortably attractive 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.
