Paisley Clurichaun Mataro 2018
- 96
- $50
- Drink by: 2025-2043
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So much to like about this single-vineyard Mataro from the Barossa Valley. The distinctive earthy, dry, dusty characters of Mataro are evident, but they’re balanced with vibrant red fruits and a subtle plummy influence. The palate is an almost effortless, languid thing that carries with great poise through to a sustained finish. It has a wonderful mouthfeel with slightly grainy tannins, providing texture and accentuating its complex characters. Drinking so well now, but it can handle plenty of time in the cellar. Cracking good wine.
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.
