Cape Mentelle Heritage Shiraz 2022
- 95
- $98
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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It is perfectly permissible to feel just a little bit sorry for Margaret River Shiraz, always in the shadows of its more famous (at least in this region) and revered sibling, Cab Sauv. It is worth focusing on the style as there are some cracking wines, usually offering good value, thanks to that shadow. This example, from three different sites in the region, spent a year and a half maturing in French oak, 42% new. What is rather interesting is that Shiraz is the only variety which is planted at all of the Cape Mentelle vineyard sites. An opaque maroon, the wine offers aromas of aniseed, sage, herbs, mulberries, cloves, soy, black fruits, graphite and tobacco leaves. There is an enticingly slippery texture here with sleek tannins, good focus, elegance, refinement and serious length. Well structured, the wine has ten to twelve years, at the very least, of pleasure ahead. There really is a lot to like here.
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.
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