Seppeltsfield The Northing Shiraz 2019
- 95
- $75
- Drink by: 2021-2041
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A beautiful wine from the northern Barossa Marananga subregion which contributes to its power and concentrated intensity. It’s a dark and powerful wine reflecting the qualities of that part of the greater Barossa. Dense thick plumy spicy fruit with a hint of dried sage and thyme threaded with a trace of oyster shell minerality. Has a firm and dry palate with that ironstone minerality evident on the finish. This was my pick of these three, let’s call them, directional wines, but only by a whisker as you can see by the scores.
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.
