Beresford Estate Blewitt Springs Shiraz 2022
- 95
- $50
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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As with most of the team’s reds, this is from the highly regarded sub-region of Blewitt Springs in McLaren Vale. Maturation, again as is the norm with the team, was in a mix of new, one and two-year-old French and American oak hogsheads. Deep magenta, this will benefit from a little extra time to allow the oak to complete integration. The wine is rich, generous and approachable with notes of mocha, mulberries, cloves, coffee beans, graphite, blackberries, kirsch and chocolate. Good intensity throughout, this is a wine brimming with life and energy. Fine balance, sleek tannins and such impressive length, really love this and it should drink beautifully for up to fifteen years, at least. A wine which has the wow factor in spades.
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.
