Xanadu Petit Verdot 2023
- 95
- $45
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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This excellent, long ripening season has certainly suited Petit Verdot, one of the later-ripening varieties. This is a beautiful wine; the aromas are highly perfumed, with rose petal, dark cherry, blackcurrant, and rich, creamy dark chocolate against a slightly spicy backdrop. There’s plushness in the rich, creamy dark fruits, but it remains vibrant and alive throughout the palate, which carries through to a sustained finish. Good tannin presence is evident, sitting comfortably with the French oak, 40% of which was new.
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.
