Passing Clouds Graeme’s Shiraz Cabernet 2022
- 94
- $34
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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This Bendigo Shiraz comes from a cooler vintage that presented a number of challenges to winemakers. In the end, though, the fruit turned out to be pretty good. It’s a blend of 60% Shiraz and 40% Cabernet from three vineyards. The colour is deep reddy black. On the nose, you get the classically bright plum and mulberry characters with a touch of earthy, dusty savoriness sitting beneath. There’s a little hint of slightly toasty oak, which is quite appealing. It’s generous and plush but medium-bodied with firm chalky tannins and an impressive, polished finish. The oak has been well handled and sits comfortably within the frame. Yes, you could cellar this for a few years, but I reckon up to 10 would just about be ideal. An excellent 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.
