Mr. Riggs Regional Series The Gaffer McLaren Vale Shiraz 2023
- 93
- $25
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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This is a most stylish example of McLaren Vale Shiraz. It was a cool season, which is reflected in a slightly more restrained and yet still compelling and flavoursome wine that captures so much of what McLaren Vale is all about. It’s designed to be soft and plush and generous with the fruit dominance obvious from the outset. And yet there is some fine tannin in here, contributing to its poise and finish. A slightly gravelly note on the palate adds a textural complexity that’s most appealing. This is a wine that, over the years, has contributed more than $220,000 towards cancer research, with a share of the purchase price going into this incredibly worthy cause.
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.
