Black Angus Heathcote Single Vineyard Shiraz 2022
- 93
- $60
- Drink by: 2024-2036
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A fine vintage in the Heathcote region, with low yields on offer from the vineyards used for this wine. Fermentation in stainless steel over two weeks, before maturation in French oak barrels for fourteen months. Under cork. Deep maroon, this is ripe and exuberant, well supported with oak. Chocolate, black fruits, mocha, coffee grinds and soy swirl around the nose. A wine which has focus, is seamless and offers medium to good length. The oak is certainly evident, but it is well handled. This is an eight to twelve year proposition and there is room for further improvement over that period.
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.
