Chateau Yaldara Chalice Shiraz 2018
- 96
- $100
- Drink by: 2022-2032
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A superb example of Shiraz from a top vintage from the Barossa Valley – what more do you want? Vibrant deep purple in colour, this is saturated in flavour, with mocha and chocolate to the fore. Cassis and bay leaves as well as some smoked meat notes and florals, with a hint of a vanillin character. Move to the palate and this just oozes chocolate – a total choc-bomb. The wine is rich, deep, dense and plush, and remains well balanced throughout. Clearly this comes from a superb vineyard. Love it and such amazing length – an utterly hedonistic experience. Drink any time from now for a decade or more, though why would you want to wait?
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.
