The Group The Murder McLaren Vale Shiraz 2020
- 92
- $34
- Drink by: 2021 - 2024
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Okay, now before you start thinking things sinister, I’m pretty sure The Murder is simply the collective for a group of crows and picks up on the fact that this vineyard is just 5km from the ocean – as the crow flies. It’s a biggie yet the fruit and tannin balance supplemented with some nice oak treatment keeps it all hanging together rather well. Thick, unctuous dark fruit characters of prune and plum with a little licorice edge. It is remarkably soft and supple. It’s a wine to get your teeth into with a decent piece of lamb I’m thinking.
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.
