3 Rings Shiraz Barossa 2017
- 90
- $20
- Drink by: 2022-2027
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The classic combination of Shiraz and the Barossa Valley is ever popular and for good reason. The fruit for this wine is from the estate’s Biscay Road Vineyard. It sees a mix of new and seasoned oak. Deep garnet/magenta in colour, the nose is expressive with dried herbs and red fruits, licorice, hints of plummy characters, warm earth and delicatessen notes. Savoury in nature, plus ripe and soft, we then move to chocolate on the palate. Thanks to very fine soft tannins, this is attractive and appealing. Drink now and for five 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.
