Shanahan’s Wines The Reaper Barossa Valley Shiraz 2024
- 96
- $90
- Drink by: 2026-2041
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This comes from the soils of Marananga in the Barossa Valley, and it’s such a good expression of the region and this vintage. The colour is a deep, inky black. The aroma immediately captivates with its intensity and drive. It shows slightly more cherry-like characters than you might expect, but there’s also a blue and black fruit influence. The palate is incredibly powerful, with depth and intensity. Sure, it’s a wine of tremendous concentration, but it delivers its payload with such effortless, stylish grace. Delicious, rich black fruits feature on the palate, along with fine, gossamer-like tannins and just the right oak influence to complement them. A first-rate wine.
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.
