Churchview Limited Release Shiraz Viognier 2023
- 93
- $38
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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Gorgeous aromatics here with this blend. It is purple/magenta in colour and the nose weaves through florals, mulberries, raspberries, cherries and a hint of stone fruit. A wine of medium length which is finely crafted. This is a refined style, well balanced, with a gentle and lingering finish. Many of these blends went a bit over the top with the stone fruit influences from too much Viognier, but here, it is well managed. And works. Enjoy this over the next six to eight 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.
