Beresford Barrel Select GSM 2022
- 93
- $25
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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The famous Rhône blend is transported to McLaren Vale with this delicious red, which offers amazing value. Both the Shiraaz and Grenache came from the estate vineyard, the Grenache from 55-year-old vines. Maturation, which was for eight months, varied – for the Shiraz, it was new and one-year-old French oak hogsheads; the Grenache spent its time in five-year-old hogsheads; and the Mataro (or Mourvèdre, if you prefer) in new American oak puncheons. Dark maroon, this smells of freshly turned warm earth with chocolate, cassis, kirsch, black fruits and mulberries. The texture is supple and sleek, while the tannins are wonderfully silky. There is good focus here, and near invisible oak integration, a wine of impressive length. It should give eight to ten years of pleasure. Not bad for this price.
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.
