Jericho Single Vineyard Kuitpo Vineyard Syrah 2023
- 94
- $45
- Drink by: 2026-2036
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So this comes from the Adelaide Hills, hence the use of the term Syrah that more closely aligns with its medium-bodied elegance. It’s a vibrant, red-fruited and quite spicy wine that’s been made with wild yeast in small open fermenters, with a combination of 60% new French and older oak for about 14 months. I love the energy and vibrancy on the palate here, with its distinctive minerally red fruits and light leafiness adding to its intrigue. It’s deceptively medium to light-bodied, yet there is great flavour intensity here, and I suspect with further maturing this will open up and develop.
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.
