Beresford Grand Reserve Shiraz 2016
- 96
- $90
- Drink by: 2025-2045
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The team have two vintages of their prestige McLaren Vale Shiraz on offer and wine lovers will surely be very happy with both of them. This release, coming from the near-legendary of 2016, has the edge – vintage can do that! The maturation treatment is similar for both wines, with sixteen to eighteen months in a mix of two and three-year-old French oak. A pleasure to see a wine with maturity from such a cracking vintage on offer at what really is a most reasonable price. An inky dark maroon, a touch of lightening on the edges, this is intense and complex and showing excellent oak integration, which imbues the wine with hints of vanilla. The nose exhibits notes of coffee beans, spices, aniseed, blackberries, chocolate, beef stock and a hint of graphite. There is a juicy fleshiness to this wine which is most appealing. Beautifully balanced, this is a stunning McLaren Vale Shiraz which is still full of energy and freshness. Serious length and silky tannins complete the picture. Gorgeous drinking already, it still has at least another twenty years in front of 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.
