Burge Family Winemakers Draycott Reserve Shiraz 2020
- 94
- $150
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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A barrel selection from the team’s oldest blocks of Shiraz, from their sites in the Barossa, this wine is only released when they believe the vintage is worthy. Extended period on skins, wild yeasts, thirty months in a mix of French and American oak, as well as no filtration and under cork. An opaque inky maroon, the oak evident, but well integrated, with notes of black fruits, aniseed, coffee grinds, bay leaves and cloves. The wine offers supple and sleek tannins, with good acidity. It is nicely balanced with a lingering finish and good linear structure. A wine with a decade or more pleasure ahead of it.
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.
