Churchview Limited Release Grenache Shiraz Mourvèdre 2022
- 93
- $38
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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An uncommon, at least for the region, blend of these three grapes, all of which were fermented and aged discreetly, maturing for fourteen months in a mix of French and American oak barrels, all older, before blending. The final result is a more appealing wine than one might have expected the region had any right to make, at least from this blend. The colour of this wine is a deep blood red. The nose offers aromas of spices, undergrowth, dried herbs, cherries, cloves and leather. The wine quickly moves to a style reflecting elegance and refinement, with notes of strawberries and raspberries emerging. There is good acidity here, fine and quite sleek tannins, and a lingering finish. A ten year proposition.
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.
