3 Rings Barossa Valley Shiraz 2024
- 92
- $20
- Drink by: 2026-2036
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The fruit here came from the Estate’s own Biscay Road Vineyard in the Barossa Valley. Fermentation is in open top fermenters and the team aimed to give the wine as much time on skins as they can. Maturation is in a mix of new and older American oak. Opaque magenta in hue, the nose is generously flavoured with aromas of chocolate, leather, plums, black cherries, spices, bold fruits, blackberries and licorice. There is a supple texture through to sleek tannins on a finish of impressive length. Enjoy this over the next six to ten years. It is absolutely cracking value.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
