Xanadu Malbec 2023
- 95
- $45
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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Another variety well-suited to the long ripening period of the 2023 vintage. Displays buoyant, ripe red and blue fruits on the nose, with a lift of African violet and a fine oyster shell minerality. The palate is full-bodied, generous and packed with dark plum, blackberry, and brighter blue fruits. Tannins are fine and chalky, with oak well integrated. Its vibrancy and freshness are compelling, and while it will cellar well, it’s also an excellent drink right 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.
