Chateau Yaldara Charley Barossa Valley Shiraz 2021
- 94
- $50
- Drink by: 2024-2036
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Barossa Shiraz from a cracking vintage, under cork. This is seriously impressive now but has real potential to improve even further. A dark mauve hue, the nose suggests a deep plushness, with notes of chocolate, espresso, coffee beans, dry herbs, delicatessen meats and bay leaves. Did I mention dark chocolate? This wine has it in spades, as they say in the classics. It also has juicy acidity, excellent length and very fine tannins. A cracking Shiraz which will provide pleasure for ten to twelve years.
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.
