Pyren Vineyard Pentagon Shiraz 2017
- 93
- $80
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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With all that extra time in bottle this Shiraz from the Pyrenees region of Victoria is starting to move into its best work. Already showing some nice seductive leathery notes with a touch of spice on the nose. The palate reveals an earthy leathery character with fine chalky tannins and a gentle use of oak combining to bring it through to a long smooth and quite seamless finish. I like this to drink now but there is a little more time in the tank if needed.
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.
