Brothers at War Some Other Guy Barossa GSM 2023
- 92
- $28
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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From the Springton, Eden Vale sub-region, this is a blend of 55% Grenache, 35% Shiraz and 10% Mataro. Maturation was for fifteen months in older 500-litre French oak puncheons. The colour is a deep purple/maroon. Lifted aromatics bring us attractive spicy touches, even a flick of pepper, along with hints of plums, mulberries, warm earth, mushrooms, cocoa powder, raspberries and leather. A wine of medium length that lingers pleasantly through to sleek tannins on the finish. This will provide very enjoyable drinking over the next six to eight 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.
