St. Hallett Blackwell Shiraz 2023
- 95
- $60
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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This is a marvellous wine that honours the significant contribution of longtime St. Hallett winemaker Stuart Blackwell. It’s from a slightly cooler season, and the result is quite a vibrant, more medium- to full-bodied wine with beautifully expressive red fruit characters. The colour is brilliant and bright with subtle purple hues. The nose has a lovely red berry, slightly blackberry plum note with some sweet vanilla pod balance. On the palate, there’s bright red fruits and a little dark chocolate with understated dried herb influences. It’s smooth and quite velvety with textured tannins just adding the structure to support the long finish. Ultimately, it’s an elegant and most poised expression of the Barossa and St. Hallett.
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.
