Auld Family Wines Strawbridge Barossa Valley Shiraz 2022
- 94
- $60
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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A really impressive Barossa Shiraz, the team source fruit from growers throughout the region. An opaque purple, this is dense and yet it is packed with flavour. We have notes of mocha, chocolate, spices, coffee beans, plums, black cherries and leather. A generous style, there is gentle acidity running the length and a soft touch of oak, rather like a lovely choccy biscuit. A decadent texture, sleek tannins and serious length, this is a cracker and will remain so for the next eight to ten 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.
