Passing Clouds Bridgewater Shiraz 2022
- 94
- $53
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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This is a fascinating wine from the Bridgewater vineyard and, like the rest of the portfolio, receives 11 months in French oak. The cooler season has brought a degree of restraint, and yet the elegance and refinement here tend to conceal the deep concentration and richness of the fruit. Loaded with spicy peppery plums and even a hint of blue fruits in there. With a touch of licorice on the palate, you are immediately assailed by dark fruits, with those chewy tannins really providing the balance and the structural support. The wine was made largely traditionally and was a blend of only the best barrels from the vineyard. It’s certainly medium-bodied, but plenty is going on here.
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.
