Wakefield Estate
TO CELEBRATE ITS 50th anniversary in 2019, Wakefield Estate – Taylors in Australia and New Zealand – has released a new wine that the company boldly claims is its best wine yet. Named Wakefield The Legacy, it’s quite a departure in stylistic terms: suavely textured, elegant, with great length, complexity and fine-grained tannins.
Established in 1969 in South Australia’s sunny Clare Valley, Wakefield is still about 50% estate-based, has always been a proudly family-owned business and is a founding member of Australia’s First Families of Wine group. It has always placed strong emphasis on show results and has had impressive success in competitions both at home and abroad. Its critics say that its red wines are bold, oaky and obvious, and that this is the kind of red wine that tends to get results in shows. But
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