Pirramimma Border Clan Limited Edition Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
- 96
- $70
- Drink by: 2026-2041
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The 2022 season in McLaren Vale turned out to be nigh on perfect, producing wines of elegance and charm, with stylish expression of the fruit. This is Cabernet, and it displays all of the dark fruit characters from the nose of blackberry and blackcurrant, with a lifted floral violet-like note. The palate is deeply powerful, yet it’s elegant and most stylish, with a smooth, seamless integration of oak and tannin supporting what is some obviously impressive fruit. Balanced and poised through to a sustained long finish, this captures so much about what McLaren Vale can do in good years.
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.
