Terre à Terre Crayères Vineyard Cabernet Franc 2023
- 92
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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This is the most stylish medium-bodied red from the Wrattonbully vineyard. Despite the cool season, this variety shows good fruit intensity on a lighter frame. Bright and red with ruby crimson hues, the nose is delightfully scented with a mix of red fruits and violets. The medium-bodied palate shows good fruit concentration and delivers an effortless, almost languid finish. Chalky tannins are evident, and the oak is deliberately understated, though 20% is new and plays an important role in the wine’s structure.
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.
