Lou Miranda Fierce III Shiraz 2019
- 92
- $45
- Drink by: 2022-2032
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This is a traditional Barossa style of shiraz. Primarily it’s based on fully ripe fruit and then extended time in American oak. In some ways a throw-back to the older style that served the Barossa so well for decades. In fact, it gets 29 months in used oak, which appears to be fundamental in ensuring a balanced, integrated finished wine. Loads of dark chocolate and cloves with a subtle dried herbs character. Thickish tannins and neatly managed oak come together to hold the wine through to its long 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.
