Wynns Coonawarra Old Vines Shiraz 2021
- 95
- $45
- Drink by: 2023-2043
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This wine shows how good Coonawarra Shiraz can be. It captures the cool climate influence on this Aussie staple. The fruit sourcing goes back into the late 19th century, so this is seriously old vine. Floral bright fruit characters with a slight peppery dried herbs and sage influence. Has a wonderfully crafted palate combining smooth effortless fruit intensity with fine chalky tannin and super fine oak. This is a wine with great cellaring potential but at this price, it would be hard not to drink a bit….er…a lot of it, now.
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.
