Sorby Adams The Vicar of Toft Barossa Shiraz 2022
- 97
- $110
- Drink by: 2026-2046
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This is a superb wine from what was an outstanding Barossa vintage. The Shiraz comes from the northern reaches of the Barossa and displays the region’s typically powerful concentration and intensity. These qualities are evident immediately on the nose before flowing into a sumptuous, dense and powerfully structured palate, all delivered with impressive finesse and refinement. Adams is not afraid to use oak, and this wine has spent 36 months in French oak, of which 30% was new. Clearly, the fruit power and weight have easily absorbed the extended maturation, producing a wine of tremendous structure and layered complexity. The balance is absolutely precise, contributing to its velvety palate feel and remarkable harmony.
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.
