Leconfield DGR Cabernet Shiraz 2022
- 97
- $70
- Drink by: 2025-2045
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DGR? Well, it stands for “damn good red” and I have to agree—that’s what it is. This one comes from the prized Terra Rossa soils of Coonawarra. It is everything you might expect from these varieties from this region. Cabernet and Shiraz sit together so well, and when you get a good year like 2022 in Coonawarra, the results are superb. Aromas of leafy blackcurrant with a little bay leaf, like black cherry. The palate has the strength of Cabernet with the plushness of Shiraz, and it comes together in an elegant and almost effortlessly structured expression of the two varieties. It’s full-bodied towards medium, but the power and the intensity are evident from the start. One of tremendous length and persistence.
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.
