Ballandean Estate Shiraz 2019
- 91
- $42
- Drink by: 2021 - 2031
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Under cork, as are all these Ballandean reds, this is also very dark in colour. The Puglisi family has many decades of experience with shiraz on the Granite Belt and it shows. Florals, chocolate, spices, coffee beans – an array of pleasing flavours in this medium bodied, mid-weight wine – a very attractive nose. On the palate, all is in balance. Good acidity, notes of dried flowers and herbs emerge. Also a little warm earth. Decent length, this is a wine which will age well and provide plenty of pleasurable drinking over the next decade.
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.
