Barossa Boy Double Trouble Shiraz Cabernet 2020
- 95
- $30
- Drink by: 2023-2033
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A blend of 55% Shiraz and 45% Cabernet, it is matured in a mix of French and American oak for two years. Deep maroon in colour, this offers an alluring nose of choc/cherry, with blackfruits, smoky notes, mocha, coffee beans, soy and sarsaparilla. There is a gorgeous plushness and ripeness. This is Barossa to its bootstraps (the Cabernet does hail from the neighbouring Eden Valley, but we are looking at the big picture). Absolutely delicious with satiny tannins and such a compelling texture, this is lingering and yet balanced. Really cracking value and good now, but expect it to continue to provide pleasure 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.
