Willoughby Park Ironrock Shiraz 2021
- 95
- $55
- Drink by: 2023-2035
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An outstanding example of what can be achieved in this cool region of WA, when the conditions are right. This is a stunning example loaded with dark blackberry and satsuma plum fruit intensity. It is mostly French oak with about 45% new, but a very small amount of American oak adds just a little balancing sweet vanillin character to complete the palate profile. The chalky fine tannins balance the dark fruit flavours and the finish is very long. Super wine this.
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.
