Wirra Wirra The Absconder Grenache 2024
- 96
- $80
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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This has been a favourite of mine since it was introduced a few years ago. Two separate parcels have been vinified using open fermenters and a portion of whole bunches, with extended time on lees. It’s an important process, producing wines that are elegant and medium weight but brilliantly integrated, with tannins sitting harmoniously within. Opens with red rose petal notes, a touch of raspberry, and a subtle earthiness that expresses Grenache so well. The palate is medium-bodied with a lightish colour, yet shows intensity and good fruit weight. Perfectly integrated and seamless. A classy wine from a very good year.
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.
