Barr Eden Dreams of Gold Shiraz 2024
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- $40
- Drink by: 2026-2038
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The vines used for this very fine Barossa/Eden Valley Shiraz were planted between 1997 and 2013. After fermentation, the wine stayed on skins for a further twenty days before basket pressing. The team has included a small percentage of the pressings to enhance the complexity. Maturation was in a mix of three- and four-year-old French oak puncheons and hogsheads. 7,800 bottles made.Opaque maroon with a deep purple rim, we have aromas of chocolate, licorice, smoked meats, plums, leather, a touch of fruitcake and some spicy notes. This is finely balanced with good integration throughout, and a fine line of acidity running the length. Good freshness here now, but anyone who puts the wine away for a year or two before opening it, and then drinking it over the following ten to twelve years, will not regret 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.
