Shanahan’s Wines If Forever Exists Barossa Valley Shiraz 2024
- 97
- $130
- Drink by: 2026-2041
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The colour is an opaque, inky black with dark purple hues. The wine comes from Marananga and shows some of the distinctly sub-regional characters. There’s an intensity of blackberry and spice, along with a little of that graphite and oyster-shell-like minerality. The palate is pure and sublime. The richness is perfectly balanced with a fine and keenly integrated mix of fine tannins and plenty of oak, although the oak is anything but dominant. It’s a wine of tremendous focus and poise, extending effortlessly to a very long finish. This is plush, luxurious Barossa Shiraz with polish.
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.
