Corryton Burge Percival Norman Shiraz 2020
- 93
- $45
- Drink by: 2024-2036
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The wine is a tribute to Percival Norman, great-grandfather, and the founder of the family’s first winery. The wine spent 18 months in French oak hogsheads. A classic and impressive Barossan Shiraz, opaque inky maroon in colour, with aromas of chocolate, dry herbs, leather, vanilla, warm earth, cloves, and animal skins, with blackberries and mulberries. Still very young, with some sappy notes and firm tannins. Taut, focused and layered, offering decent length there is excellent ageing potential here. A wine with ten to twelve years ahead of 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.
