Angas King 1836 Clare Valley Reserve Shiraz 2021
- 94
- $75
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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Exciting Shiraz from a stunning vintage for the Clare Valley. The colour here is an opaque maroon. We have notes of chocolate, dry herbs, blackberries, bay leaves, cold tea, aniseed and coffee grinds. There is exemplary oak integration here with very good length, leading to sleek tannins. A lingering finish which exemplifies the excellent balance which the wine exhibits throughout. Drink for six to ten 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.
