Corryton Burge Barossa Shiraz 2021
- 94
- $28
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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Barossa Shiraz from a cracking vintage at this price… what is not to love? A real mix of oak here – some new but mostly older, some French but mostly American, and some holding the wine for ten months, the rest for eighteen. The colour is a near opaque maroon with notes of chocolate, plums, aniseed, cloves, and blackberries. Time in the glass sees more florals and cassis emerge. There is good intensity, poise, and impressive length here. Well structured, linear and with fine tannins, this is a bit special. The wine exhibits good concentration for the full journey, and it will drink beautifully for a decade. Love it.
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.
