Sorby Adams The Vicar of Toft Barossa Shiraz 2021
- 97
- $100
- Drink by: 2025-2043
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Adams has sourced this impressive Shiraz from the northern Barossa in Ebenezer and Moppa. Once again, he hasn’t shied away from the use of oak, with 36 months in French oak hogsheads, half of which was new. He uses tight-grained oak, minimising any overt or excessive impact and creating terrific balance in the wine. It is typically rich and powerful, yet there’s a polish and refinement here that reflects both the oak treatment and this exceptional vintage. Fine-grained, plummy fruit, a little blackberry and cocoa, with a lift of cedar—all merge seamlessly in a lifted aromatic. The palate harnesses the power and elegance of the fruit, with the oak and fine-grained tannins perfectly cradling it through to an exceptionally long finish. This is a classy 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.
