Angullong Fossil Hill Shiraz 2023
- 93
- $30
- Drink by: 2026-2038
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The fruit here is sourced from the Orange region in New South Wales and the team co-ferment a dollop of Viognier with it. Maturation is in French oak puncheons for a year, with 20% of that oak new. Dark magenta with a blood red rim, there is a flick of oak evident on the nose, but integration is progressing as it should. The nose reveals notes of dry herbs, roast meats, chocolate, warm soil, plums, cocoa beans and a touch of fruitcake. There is good intensity and balance throughout, with the concentration through to fine, firm and appealingly polished tannins. This is a wine of very good length for enjoying over the next eight to twelve years. Really good buying.
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.
