Kilikanoon Prodigal Grenache 2023
- 94
- $40
- Drink by: 2025-2031
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This turned out to be a pretty good season in Clare, resulting in some first-rate red wines. The Grenache comes off a very old, low-yielding, dry-grown vineyard in the Watervale sub-region. After basket pressing, the wine was put into seasoned French oak puncheons for about nine months, contributing to its plush elegance and generous fruit characters. The colour is bright red and slightly translucent, and the aromas are fairly typical of the rose petals and strawberry notes that you get from this variety. There’s succulent, sweet fruit on the palate, with notes of Turkish Delight and spice, and a slightly dewy raspberry character adding mid-palate texture. Deliciously flavoursome, with a fine, lingering finish.
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.
