Kilikanoon Attunga 1865 Shiraz 2016
- 97
- $250
- Drink by: 2024-2042
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This is a Museum release of this outstanding wine made from vines planted near Auburn on the way to Clare in 1865. It’s just starting to give a glimpse of the good things ahead. Faint hints of leather and library book development on the nose, but it’s offset by the rich weight of primary fruit. It’s intense and deeply concentrated, but it has polish and poise with dark chocolate and ripe plummy fruit flavours filling the palate. The tannin and oak combination nails it. And there’s still more time ahead of it.
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.
