Wirra Wirra The Absconder Grenache 2019
- 95
- $70
- Drink by: 2023 - 2030
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This super example of modern grenache comes from a vineyard planted more than 100 years ago in McLaren vale. From the get-go, the aim has been to gently manage the fruit to capture all those beautifully seductive perfumed subtleties that are finally being recognised by wine drinkers. Only older French oak puncheons have been used after fermentation in open fermenters and some whole bunch additions to heighten those aromatics. Rose petal and dried herbs on the nose with red currant and faint raspberry notes. A seamless and expressive palate displays slightly deeper darker fruits with a vital crisp acidity supporting the fine tannins. Nails it.
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.
