Passing Clouds Rheola Shiraz 2022
- 94
- $46
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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This is a limited release wine from Passing Clouds that only sees the light of day when the seasons are good. Although this was a reasonably challenging year, the wines have turned out pretty good. It’s from a single vineyard, 100% Shiraz, and has received 11 months in French oak. On the nose, you get a mix of red berry and spice with a slightly cooler climate pepperiness as well. It has a delicious, juicy mouthfeel and a lifted, vibrant finish supported by fine tannins. It’s an elegantly crafted wine with the potential to cellar for a few years, but up to 10 years would be just about perfect.
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.
