Glen Eldon Twisted Trunk Reserve Shiraz 2024

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Sam Kim - Wine Orbit

Opulent, graceful, and complex, the wine showcases dark-fruit richness, cake spice, smoked meat, vanilla, and cedar on the nose, with a hint of cocoa. It’s concentrated and deeply flavoured on the palate with a richly textured mouthfeel and loads of fine-grained tannins, making it multi-layered and splendidly structured with a sustained, sumptuous finish.

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Russ Gallagher - Vino Masters

Dense crimson with an inky core and youthful violet edges. The nose shows blackberry, dark plum and blueberry compote with notes of cocoa, roasted coffee bean and sweet baking spice. Rich and full-bodied, the palate displays impressive concentration. Ripe blackberry and plum flow across a plush texture supported bt velvety tannins and lively acidity. Hints of dark chocolate, spice and savoury earthiness add complexity, while oak contribute structure and polish. The finish is long and generous with lingering dark fruit, coconut, vanilla and gentle spice. A super-ripe Barossa Shiraz highlighting central Barossa floor fruit and meticulous winemaking from Jo Irvine

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Ray Jordan - Winepilot

The Twisted Trunk refers to the old vines that were planted in 1865, and to this day produce excellent, though tiny quantities of Shiraz. This one was made in pretty traditional ways with open fermentation, hand plunging, and then basket pressing. It’s all contributed to bringing out the generous and full, rich flavours, albeit to present with elegance and refinement. Rich plummy blackberry flavours. Touch of coffee grind and mocha. And some lovely spices and herbs. Sits so comfortably together now, but it does have plenty of cellaring potential. Ray Jordan Wine critic, author and journalist at Winepilot 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. Wine writing

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Tony Love - Winepilot

Harvested from Glen Eldon’s estate owned vineyards in the Krondorf district of the Barossa Valley, planted reportedly in 1865. There’s a reserved, old-vine charm about this wine, traditionally made, cleverly soaking in both new and seasoned oak maturation so it sits comfortably within the fruit which has a delicious thread of crimson plum flavour and a backdrop of baking spices, all delicately woven and finished. Nothing hard or brash about this, and rather a quiet confidence and sophisticated energy that is a pleasure to behold. Tony Love Journalist at Winepilot Tony is best known for his 10 years as News Corp’s National Wine Writer, with weekly columns in major metropolitan mastheads throughout Australia including The Adelaide Advertiser, The Sydney Daily Telegraph and the Melbourne Herald Sun. He continues to write feature articles and columns for all the major Australian wine media publications. Tony has also worked as a restaurant reviewer, section editor, book editor, digital content provider, journalism teacher and was named Wine Communicators of Australia 2018 Legend of the Vine (SA). Find out more about Tony at tonylove.com.au Wine writing wine critic