3 Rings Shiraz 2022
- 92
- $20
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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This really is fabulous buying. Twenty bucks and a wine which will elevate your everyday drinking or seriously impress your wine-snobby friends (every group has them and if you think you don’t then perhaps it is you) at the next barbecue. More evidence of what an excellent vintage 2022 is in the Barossa. Take advantage. From the estate’s Biscay Road Vineyard, the wine spent time in a mix of new and older American oak before bottling. The colour is a dark blood red garnet. The nose exhibits an array of lifted aromatics, including chocolate, blackcurrants, licorice, soy, plums, cloves and even a touch of charcoal. There is good balance here, satiny tannins and decent length with a flick of acidity running the full journey. Such cracking value, this should drink well over the next decade.
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.
