Byron & Harold The Partners Great Southern Shiraz 2021
- 94
- $60
- Drink by: 2023-2033
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Great Southern Shiraz has staked a serious claim as one of the pre-eminent wine styles of the nation. This example, from an exciting vintage, is vibrant mauve in colour. The nose offers delightful aromas of dry herbs, chocolate, spices, mulberries, tobacco leaves, aniseed, truffle and mulberries. Good intensity and concentration throughout, but there is also impeccable balance, focus and excellent length with fine tannins lining the finish. Expect ten years of pleasure from this wine, during which time it should improve even further.
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.
