Schild Estate Ben Schild Cellar Release Shiraz 2017
- 95
- $90
- Drink by: 2025-2043
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This comes from the Three Springs property in the Barossa Valley near Rowland Flat. It was open fermented and matured in a mix of French, American and Hungarian oak for 18 months. The aromas show a slightly spicy, plummy, blackberry combination, with liberal dark chocolate nuances and a slightly liqueur cherry richness. The palate is silky smooth and seamlessly structured, with fine tannins and oak sitting harmoniously within the opulent fruit concentration. It’s eight years old now and has hardly started to move on its journey. A wine with excellent cellaring potential, but such is its balance and poise, it’s drinking wonderfully now.
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.
