Claymore You’ll Never Walk Alone GSM 2023
- 93
- $25
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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A cracking version of this red blend, which is surely better value than a wager on Liverpool to win the EPL (fans of the wine will know the reference, one I may well live to regret). The blend is 48% Grenache, 44% Shiraz, and 8% Mataro. The vineyards are dry grown bush vines in excess of 80 years of age. The colour is a crimson/garnet with atractive aromatics which weave through notes of plums, redcurrants, raspberries, dried herbs, aniseed and coffee grinds. Seamless in structure, right through to the slightly grainy tannins on a persistent finish. There is good balance and concentration throughout and this is a wine for enjoying over the next decade.
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.
