Sorby Adams The Thing Shiraz 2017
- 95
- $150
- Drink by: 2021-2046
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Simon Adams knows a thing or two about making shiraz after his years with Yalumba many years ago, and now with his own thing, like this appropriately named The Thing. This is classic Barossa from the first sniff through the final lick of the lips. It’s a blend of Eden Valley and Barossa shiraz, displaying both elegance and real power, as the more robust Barossa wraps its paws around the gentle Eden Valley. Bursting with aromas of dark chocolate and earthy ripe plum. The oak – well get this, it’s had 40 months in oak, yet it doesn’t smack of an excessive oak influence, and the integration in the palate is excellent. This is almost old school Barossa with a modern refined twist. You have to luv ’em.
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.
