Cape Barren Rare Bird Shiraz 2018
- 97
- $150
- Drink by: 2024-2044
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The vines for this prestige Shiraz from McLaren Vale are all thirty-five years and older. The wine enjoyed fifteen days skin contact, not under screwcap and very much the heavy bottle syndrome. Deep garnet/maroon, there are layers of oak here, giving the wine vanillin notes. We have plushness and richness. The wine is chockful of chocolate, cassis, blackberries, and licorice. Flavour out the wahzoo! Just what one would hope for from a premium Shiraz from a great vintage from one of our top regions. Gorgeous texture, balance immaculate and the length really impressive. Delicious. This has fifteen to twenty years ahead, if you can be patient.
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.
