Bass Line Barossa Valley GSM 2023
- 92
- $28
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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These days, the old Grenache Shiraz Mourvèdre blend is as much a part of the Barossa landscape as it is of France’s Rhone Valley. And you can usually put good money on the fact that the Barossan examples will hail from vines much older than those found in the Rhone. Here, the vines range between fifty and an amazing 130 years of age. This is made by the former Barossa Winemaker of the Year, Stuart Bourne. A dark garnet with a ruby red rim. The nose offers an array of perfumes, including plums, dried herbs, warm earth, licorice, animal fur, red berries and spices. Juicy acidity, good focus, fine tannins and medium length here. It will provide pleasure for at least the next eight to twelve years. Good buying.
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.
