Claymore One Lovely Day Clare Valley Shiraz 2022
- 93
- $28
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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From the excellent 2022 vintage in the Clare Valley, one which also saw good quantity as well as quality, this is a single vineyard wine, the Shanky Vineyard in the Watervale sub-region. A maroon centre with red rims, the nose is all about mulberries, chocolate, cassis, aniseed, bay leaves, blackberries and spices, with good oak integration. The chocolate is to the fore on the palate and there are hints of bitter almond on the finish. The wine has a sleek texture, ultra-fine tannins and very good length. Delicious and approachable now, it will be better in two years and then drink well for the following ten to twelve years. Terrific 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.
