Bimbadgen Estate First Terrain Shiraz 2021
- 91
- $29
- Drink by: 2025-2031
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From McLaren Vale fruit, the wine enjoyed a ten day ferment, before fourteen months maturing in French oak barriques. Wonderful that we are still seeing wines from the brilliant 2021 vintage, and that helps to make this really stunning buying. An inky dark maroon, this is very much an earthy and savoury style. Slightly rustic – always a feature which divides the crowd, with many loving that character, others not quite so much. If you do enjoy it, this wine is for you. Dry herbs, black fruits, plums, raspberries, cloves, soy, warm earth and mushrooms. A wine of medium length and supple texture, there are fine, abundant, powdery tannins. For drinking over the next four to six 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.
