The Lane Vineyard Shiraz 2025
- 93
- $30
- Drink by: 2026-2035
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Such an elegant, stylish wine from the Adelaide Hills from a season that was incredibly dry and early, with the cooler climes of the Adelaide Hills managing to avoid much of the heat stress. It’s a soft and supple, plush Shiraz that, after basket pressing, had 18 months in oak, most of which was old, but just a lift of spicy 12% new oak. The use of a small percentage of whole bunches has certainly contributed to its poise and structure, adding a subtle sage-like note. Textured, flavoursome, an impressive wine for drinking over the medium term.
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.
