Brokenwood Tallawanta Vineyard Shiraz 2024
- 97
- $150
- Drink by: 2026-2041
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This vineyard was planted in 1920. Maturation is in French oak puncheons and one 600-litre demi-muid, with new oak comprising just 17%. It does seem that this wine hides in the shadow of the famous Graveyard, but the quality is such – there is but the proverbial wafer-thin between them – that this really is fabulous buying (yes, everything is relative). Vibrant magenta with a purple rim, the nose reveals aromas of truffles, charcuterie, mulberries, spices, warm earth, herbs, aniseed and superb oak integration. It is beautifully perfumed throughout. A wine of great length with concentration running the full journey, and immaculate balance at all times, it finishes with supple tannins. Love this. It should excite over the next fifteen 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.
