Zonte’s Footstep Violet Beauregard Malbec 2023
- 93
- $30
- Drink by: 2025-2031
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The wonderful region of Langhorne Creek provides the Malbec for this excellent wine. The region over decades has excelled in several varieties, but it is Malbec that really has stood tall. The colour is quite bright and brilliant with lifted notes of blueberry and mulberry and an underpinning plumminess. The palate has a sweet fruit flavour, it’s soft and supple with slightly chalky tannins and a lovely raspberry violet-like character. It all sits so snugly together. An excellent wine for drinking in the short to medium term.
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.
