Brokenwood Hunter Shiraz 2018
- 92
- $50
- Drink by: 2022 - 2028
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From a truly brilliant year for reds in the Hunter, this is as impressive as you would wish. Spices, ripe fruits, truffles and dark berries. This is exhibiting a wonderful plushness. From the younger vines in the Tallawanta, Graveyard, Mistress and Verona vineyards, so it has an impeccable provenance. There is focus and length and surely a really exciting future. If someone handed you this and told you that it was a winery’s standard, bottom of the rung offering (and I mean all this in the most positive sense), you would immediately know two things. This is a seriously impressive winery and the wine comes from a scintillating vintage. Right on both counts.
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.
