Chateau Yaldara GSM Barossa 2016
- 95
- $50
- Drink by: 2022-2032
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Cracking Rhône style blend but all Barossa in flavour. Before we get into the ins and outs, the price for this wine seems to sit around the $60 mark, give or take. First, that is cracking value for such a delicious wine, considering that the current release of Grange is 2018. This is two years older and a squillionth of the price. Not suggesting it is a better wine than the current Grange, but for anyone looking for value with an older release, look no further (the current Grange is $1,000 a bottle in case you were wondering). Still bright crimson in colour and just not showing its age at all. This is supple, plush, soft and approachable. We have notes of chocolate, leather, animal skins, tobacco leaves, licorice and dry herbs with good complexity already evident. The wine picks up even more on the palate which is richly flavoured, balanced and shows excellent length. Fine tannins and a seductive texture but this wine still has a good ten years ahead of it and shows how good this vintage always was. Cracking wine, cracking value.
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.
