Pertaringa Tipsy Hill Single Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
- 97
- $120
- Drink by: 2026-2046
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This was a very good season in McLaren Vale, producing some quite wonderful wines, and in this case it’s sourced from the excellent Blewitt Springs subregion. There’s power here—power plus—with a strong blackcurrant and blackberry combination on the nose, some subtle toasty oak, and lifted notes of floral violets. The palate shows the influence of 20 months in oak, of which 30 percent was new. But the fruit weight and intensity have handled it well and set it up for long-term cellaring. Ultimately, it’s perfectly poised, balanced, and neatly integrated, with the structure to handle extended ageing.
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.
