Aramis Morpheus Shiraz Viognier 2018
- 95
- $165
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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2018 is a wonderful vintage and those who have it in their cellars have been fortunate. Those who don’t have a chance to rectify that with this tremendous release. Just 978 bottles, although they probably weigh the same as about four thousand normal bottles, under diam. From McLaren Vale, this Shiraz has just 2% Viognier added. The colour is a gleaming crimson red. There are gorgeous aromatics here with raspberries and cherries to the fore. We have notes of black fruits, licorice, florals and a flick of stone fruit. A focused, linear style, finely balanced, with silky tannins and very good length. It still has at least a decade ahead of it.
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.
