Auld Family William Patrick Single Vineyard Shiraz 2021
- 95
- $70
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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The team’s flagship wine, and tribute to their great-grandfather, makes a reappearance after its previous incarnation from 2018 – obviously, this is an organisation that means what it says when we hear that the wine will be released only from the very best years. Under Diam, the wine saw a year maturing in quality French oak. This is deep purple in colour. The nose exhibits notes of cloves, licorice, blackberries and blueberries, graphite, mocha, soy and beef stock. There is excellent oak integration here. This is a rich and hedonistic wine with impeccable balance, vibrant acidity, silky tannins and a long and persistent finish. A worthy flagship wine from the Barossa, if ever there was one. Fifteen 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.
