3 Rings Shiraz 2020
- 90
- $20
- Drink by: 2023-2031
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This is a top value, easy drinking style of Barossa Shiraz – and who doesn’t love that? Production is more extensive than for the Cabernet with 25,000 cases made (something about, when you are on a good thing, stick to it, springs to mind). Crimson red hue, we have black fruits to the fore here. Coffee grinds, warm earth, dried herbs and chocolate. The wine has focus, balance, a seamless structure and soft tannins, with decent length. A bargain priced Shiraz, quite delicious, with good flavours, for drinking over the next six to eight years.
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.
