Bec Hardy Village Green Shiraz 2021
- 92
- $22
- Drink by: 2022-2030
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A nod to the love of cricket and what could be a finer pursuit? This is dark maroon with plums and chocolate. There are notes of coffee grinds and mocha with cassis and vivid dark fruits plus a lovely bright freshness throughout. The wine is well structured with fine, perhaps ever so slightly grainy tannins. Good acidity and length too so six to eight years ahead, though don’t hesitate to enjoy it today if you wish. Love it now, but one can expect it to improve even further.
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.
