Angove McLaren Vale Shiraz 2022
- 93
- $25
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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McLaren Vale Shiraz from an excellent vintage, it includes parcels of old vines. This is deep maroon in colour, and cracking value. There are notes of chocolate, warm earth, licorice, animal hides, cherries, blackberries and even a touch of black jellybean on the nose. There is a fine line of acidity here and a supple texture, with satiny tannins and impressive length. Enjoy this over the next six to eight years. One of those wines which it is impossible not to enjoy. Not sure I’d go with the team’s recommended match of beef curry – a good steak or gourmet sausages seem more the ticket.
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.
