Seppeltsfield Touriga 2020
- 91
- $25
- Drink by: 2020 - 2023
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A variety most famously used for fortified wines in Portugal but which shows its versatility in this excellent joven style. It’s been made as a fleshy fruit-driven wine capturing the essential fruit characteristics of this variety. There is no oak influence here and the plummy, cherry aromas are most appealing plus a little peppery influence adding an aromatic lift. The palate is plump and fruity with fine chalky light tannins. Love the high perfumed notes and the bright cherry palate. It’s also been made in the restored 1888 Gravity Cellars.
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.
