B&H The Partners Shiraz Great Southern 2023
- 94
- $60
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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A wine which reveals all the glories that the Great Southern region imbues upon good Shiraz, especially from an excellent vintage. Gleaming maroon in colour with powerful aromatics, we have notes of florals, red cherries, rose petals, plums, cranberries, spices and a flick of well handled oak. There is ideal balance here, with freshness and focus. A wine of finesse and serious length, the palate sees characters reminiscent of smoked meats and cassis emerge. There is promise of more to come over the next ten to fifteen 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.
