Yelland & Papps Limited Cuvée Old Vine Shiraz 2018
- 96
- $92
- Drink by: 2024-20342
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This comes off 60-year-old vines of the Old Bamboo Creek Vineyard in Greenock. The quality of the fruit allows a substantial mix of first-fill French oak puncheons and additional seasoned oak to be used without compromising the fruit expression. Dense and concentrated with tremendous power driving from a deep midpalate core. Dark savoury plummy fruit with a faint hint of dried herbs and coffee grinds. This is rich and syrupy with such poise.
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.
