Angas King McLaren Vale Shiraz 2016
- 94
- $45
- Drink by: 2024-2044
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The mirror image of our Clare Shiraz, this is an opaque maroon hue. There is also evidence of oak here as well, but the integration is even more complete and in better balance at the moment. There are notes of chocolate, blackcurrants, graphite, blueberries, soy, mocha, coffee beans and roast meats. Seamless in style, through to fine, satiny tannins. Still youthful, the wine offers very good length and so much to like. Should provide pleasure for fifteen to twenty years. Good 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.
