Shanahan’s Wines The Barking Dog Grenache Shiraz Mataro 2025
- 92
- $23
- Drink by: 2026-2032
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What a great-value GSM blend this wine is. It’s sourced from two important sub-regions within the Barossa, Greenock and Marananga, so it carries some distinctive regional influences. There’s a slightly rustic earthiness here, with a touch of graphite that is immensely appealing and complements the bright, juicy red fruits. Perfumed aromas of bright red fruit and plums, with a little liquorice and slightly sage-like characters. The palate is soft and quite supple, with those additional complexities from the sub-regions working neatly into the vibrant red fruits. The oak influence is minimal, so this is all about presenting fruit purity, which works really well. An immensely appealing wine for drinking over the next five or six years.
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.
