Beresford Grand Reserve Shiraz 2017
- 94
- $90
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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The team’s prestige Shiraz allows wine lovers to enjoy a fine red with plenty of age already under its belt. The wine spent sixteen to eighteen months maturing in two and three-year-old French oak. An opaque maroon with ruby red on the edges, this does offer some maturity. We have notes of cocoa powder, mushrooms, licorice, dried herbs, warm earth and even a touch of vegemite. A wine of medium length with sleek tannins, there is juicy acidity still evident with life and freshness. A most attractive wine which will provide immediate gratification, though will continue to excite for at least the next six to ten years.
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.
