Aces & Arrows Grenache Barossa 2019
- 92
- $30
- Drink by: 2024-2032
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Finally, Mick got Barossa Grenache. His fascination with the variety started in Spain, but here, he has some wonderful old vine vineyards, four of them, with which to work. Fermentation was in a mix of stainless steel and French oak, and was on either skins or whole bunches. A gleaming magenta hue here, the aromas include strawberries, bay leaves, dried herbs, warm earth, spices, and cherries. A wine of mid-weight and decent length with a lingering finish. Good energy here, this is fresh with sleek tannins. Delightful drinking, this is a youthful style but has a good future. Four to eight years. Excellent 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.
