Paisley Maeve Shiraz 2021
- 95
- $50
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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In my experience, the 2021 vintage in the Barossa was one for the ages. Simply stunning wines have emerged, and this one is right up there. Typical of this vintage, it delivers its fruit package and flavour intensity with such balance and poise, and more in the medium- to full-bodied zone. Plenty of those plummy dark berry characters on the nose, a little spice and cocoa, and then the palate packs it all together with a tightly wound core surrounded by fleshier fruit. The tannins are quite fine but play an important part, and the oak is precisely balanced. The most complete wine, capturing all that is good in the Barossa.
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.
