Brockenchack Jack Harrison Shiraz 2022
- 95
- $50
- Drink by: 2026-2041
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Fruit for this excellent Shiraz has been sourced from the Eden Valley, from vines averaging six decades of age. Maturation was for two years in French oak hogsheads, half of them new. Dark red/maroon in hue, this is big and bold with notes of plums, dried herbs, tobacco leaves, black fruits, coffee beans and chocolate. The texture is gorgeously supple and there is a very long finish. Hints of early complexity are already evident, and we have silky tannins on the well-balanced conclusion. This should be a 15-year, take-no-prisoners proposition without a hitch. Like this a lot.
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.
