Pirramimma Geoff Johnston Milestone Shiraz 2020
- 94
- $60
- Drink by: 2023-2035
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This comes from a vineyard Geoff Johnston planted with his father back in 1971. It’s always harvested early and in this warm to hot dry year with small intense berry flavours a feature, that is suited to the wine perfectly. This is less about ripe generous fruit but more about poise and savoury dried herb influenced flavours. It is silky smooth with a marvelous integration of oak and fruit with a chalky tannin support to take it to a long finish. I like that little hint of sage bush to the finish.
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.
