Pikes Homage Cabernet Malbec 2023
- 94
- $30
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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This blend of Cabernet and Malbec has always worked well in the Clare. In this case, the fruit has been sourced from Clare and Polish Hill River and is a mix of 70% Cabernet and 30% of the fleshier, punchier Malbec. It was all naturally fermented and then had 12 months in seasoned oak. Captures the essential aromas of blackcurrant with a plummy, mulberry floral influence. The palate is typically generous and plush, with bundles of ripe dark fruits balanced with some fine structural tannins and a very subtle influence of oak. It’s drinking really well now, but will certainly handle cellaring over the next decade.
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.
