Willoughby Park Kalgan River Shiraz 2021
- 94
- $32
- Drink by: 2023-2033
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You are getting a terrific high class Great Southern Shiraz for this price. Bloody fantastic if you ask me. Comes off dry-grown Kalgan River vines that are now about 25 years old. Sits in the medium-bodied zone but there is excellent flavour concentration and intense aromatics. On the nose you get red fruits with even a hint of mum’s rhubarb crumble pie. The new oak component of 40% is reasonably high yet it is perfect for the task. Excellent wine.
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.
