Cimicky Shiraz Cellar Selection 2021
- 95
- $58
- Drink by: 2025-2039
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From a stellar Barossa vintage, the team have moved to screw cap here. The wine spent eighteen to twenty-six months maturing in oak barrels. We have aromas moving through spicy notes, chocolate, mocha, cloves, cold tea, blueberries, coffee beans and aniseed. The oak is well handled and the wine has some serious concentration – coiled power just waiting to unleash itself over the coming years. Finely balanced, it finishes with satiny tannins and excellent persistence. It sits nicely alongside the 2020 at the moment, but it has even more potential. Enjoy this over the next ten to fifteen 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.
