Ox Hardy Slate Shiraz 2021
- 96
- $80
- Drink by: 2023-2038
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This is the fourth release of this wine which was fermented in old slate fermenters used until 1927 after which they fell into disrepair before Andrew Hardy brought them back to life. Lots of hands on here. The fruit was hand bucketed into the fermenter, hand plunged and then bucketed out after two weeks and pressed into oak. Smooth and delicious with a grainy savoury element cutting through the opulent concentrated plummy fruit. Fine tannins and that superb, understated oak play their parts. A beauty.
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.
