Xanadu Circa 77 Shiraz 2023
- 92
- $22
- Drink by: 2026-2032
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It’s little wonder that a wine of this price is so good, given that it comes from this wonderful vintage in Margaret River. The fruit comes from Walls Cliffs. And it’s a combination of largely Shiraz with about 2% of the spicy white variety Viognier. It also received 20% new oak during its 14 months. This is as good an example of this wine as I’ve seen. It’s perfectly weighted, it’s poised, and so seamlessly integrated with vibrant, high-energy fruit flavors that really characterize this vintage. Loads of ripe berry and plums, with a nice spicy complexity.
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.
