Brave Souls The Whaler Shiraz 2024
- 93
- $29.95
- Drink by: 2026-2028
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A reasonably equal blend of Shiraz from the Eden Valley and Barossa Valley, this is absolutely delicious drinking. The team include a small percentage of whole bunches in the fermentation and maturation continues for around fourteen months. Dark magenta, the nose opens with lashings of dark chocolatey oak and vanilla touches. This is very well supported with notes of coffee beans, mocha, plums and mulberries. Ripe and intense, this wine revels in its big bold Barossa flavours. There is excellent length here and fine balance with supple, satiny tannins while the palate is absolutely chockers with molten chocolate and aniseed notes. Will continue to drink beautifully for the next ten to twelve 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.
