Passing Clouds Serpentine Shiraz 2022
- 96
- $58
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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Now this is a wine I could get my teeth into. It’s plush, powerful, shows finesse, refinement, and outstanding fruit concentration. The colour is quite deep and dark, and you are immediately greeted with a burst of dark fruits, cocoa, and chocolate with a lift of white pepper. The palate is smooth but supported by chewy tannins, and there’s that little hint of dry earth sitting beneath. It’s highly concentrated and already showing a degree of complexity with a palate that extends with effortless ease to a very long finish. An outstanding wine that really highlights the qualities of the Bendigo region.
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.
