Pirramimma Hartfell Shiraz 2022
- 96
- $150
- Drink by: 2025-2045
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This comes from one of the oldest vineyards in McLaren Vale, planted more than 130 years ago. I’ve seen some terrific wines over the years from Pirramimma, but none better than this. This is a powerful, concentrated, yet refined and almost elegant example that captures the season and the vineyard so well. Intense aromas of plum, black cherry, spices, dark chocolate and even a little mocha. The palate intensity delves deep with the ripe, plummy blackberry notes emerging and complemented by some nice oak treatment. It’s a wine that is so well put together now that current drinking wouldn’t be a crime, and yet it has everything to handle extended cellaring time. Marvellous example of Shiraz from McLaren Vale.
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.
