Mr Riggs Burnt Block Shiraz 2021
- 96
- $60
- Drink by: 2025-2045
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From the first take on the nose, you know you are in a heady space. It comes from a single block in Riggs’ Piebald Gully vineyard in the cool Clarendon subregion. Exotic aromas of prune and mulberry with an ethereal lift of violets. The palate is deep and intense but delivers with a purity and effortlessness that takes it through to a very long finish. Rich dark plum and blackberry notes. Fine chalky tannins and well-managed oak support a marvellous wine from this outstanding vintage.
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.
