Beresford McLaren Vale Shiraz 2022
- 93
- $25
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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A delicious McLaren Vale Shiraz, which spent between fourteen and sixteen months maturing in a mix of French and American oak, this is cracking value. 2022 is another superb vintage for the region. An opaque maroon, the nose exhibits notes of chocolate, spices, plums, coffee beans, mocha, blackberries, even a touch of blueberries and cloves. There is an immediate impression of serious concentration here, with good oak integration. Supple and seamless, there is excellent length and persistence here, exemplary balance and satiny tannins. A ten year proposition, this really is a must-have value.
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.
