Brokenwood Wade Block 2 Vineyard Shiraz 2022
- 94
- $75
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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This is the 22nd release from the Wade Block 2, in McLaren Flat – not bad for a vineyard just thirty years of age. 2022 is a superb vintage in the region. The wine spent sixteen months in French oak puncheons. Dark purple maroon hue, the nose immediately gives forth notes of smoked meats, truffles, black fruits, chocolate, leather, soy and plums. Some biscuit and vanilla remain evident from the oak integration. Finely constructed, this is a wine of medium length with sleek though abundant tannins and bright acidity. It will provide extremely attractive drinking over the next decade.
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.
